53 you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to apossess.
54 And ayou shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone’s inheritance shall be whatever falls to him by lot. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be airritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell.
56 Moreover it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.’ ”
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Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Numbers 33:55.
Numbers 33:55-56
In this case, let us think of the inhabitants of the land as the sins that so easily beset us. God wants us to go in and eradicate everyone because if we leave some of our favorite sins behind saying, “Oh, God doesn’t worry about that one,” He says those are going to come back to bite you. And if they do not, He says “I will.” He wants us to be perfect, be complete, to clear those sins out, to examine ourselves, see where we failed, and root out all those sins so that we can be pure before Him. We have read I Peter chapter 1 before: Be holy as I am holy. It means purity. It means separateness. It means righteousness. It is the way God is.
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