Numbers 33:55

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.’ ”

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Numbers 33:50-56

The expulsion of the Canaanites and the destruction of their monuments of idolatry had been already enjoined (see the marginal references); and Numbers 33:54 is substantially a repetition from Exodus 26:53-55. But the solemn warning of Numbers 33:55-56 is new. A call for it had been furnished by their past transgressions in the matter of Baal-peor, and by their imperfect fulfillment, at the first, of Moses' orders in the Midianite war.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Numbers 33:55:**

Numbers 33:50-56
Judges 2:3
Job 1:10
2 Corinthians 12:7

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