Monday, September 6, 2021

Numbers 26:52-56 Seven Years Subduing and Seven Years Dividing

 52Then the LORD said to Moses, 53“The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names. 54Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one; each tribe is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those registered.

55Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers. 56Each inheritance is to be divided by lot among the larger and smaller tribes.”


“Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance,.... That were numbered, and to none else:

according to the number of their names; and for this end was the number of them now taken, that the land might be equally divided among them; women and minors, or such as were under twenty years of age, had no share in it; and even only those who were at that age at this time; so Jarchi says, it was not divided to any that were less than twenty years of age, even though they came to be full twenty before the division of the land; for they were seven years subduing it, and seven years dividing it, yet none took any part of it but these 601,730: nay, he says, if a man had six children they took but their father's part only.” (Gills Exposition)


Did you get that, seven years subduing and seven years dividing?

Have you ever studied the fate of a man that won the lottery? If given a large sum, an inheritance, he spends it quickly and becomes poor again.

The same fate would have happened to the Israelites if the Lord gave them the land without seven years subduing and seven years dividing.

Blessings 



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