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Deuteronomy 1:28
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26 a“Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God;  
27 and you acomplained in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord bhates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.  
28 Where can we go up? Our brethren have1 discouraged our hearts, saying, a“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the bAnakim there.” ’  
29 “Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, aor afraid of them.  
30 aThe Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,  
31 and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a aman carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’  
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Deuteronomy 1:26-32

Israel never really trusted God. Breaking the sixth commandment was merely the next step in the process of sin. Having committed the sin of doubt, they went on to commit the sin of war. God was determined to work out His purpose to give the land to Abraham and his descendants. Israel chose to be a war-making nation, but because God's purpose must stand regardless of what men do, he continued to back Israel in their conquest of the land and ordered wars.

John W. Ritenbaugh
The Sixth Commandment (Part 2): War! (1997)

Related Topics: God's Purpose | Israel Chooses War | Sin of Doubt | Sin of War | Sixth Commandment | The Sixth Commandment | War




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Matthew 6:19-21


 
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