Study 23 From The Book of Numbers
is: Numbers 31. Conquest of the Midianites
1.
This is another difficult passage
unless you bear in mind (a) that it records only the bare outline of an event
far greater in scope; (b) that it is recorded from a particular standpoint (the
Midianite account was probably quite different from this one); and (c) that its
message concerns a God of love who must purge of evil everything that is
His. What are the forms of purging found
in this account? In what directions ought a Christian to act with comparable
severity? Cf. Col. 3:5-11.
2.
What does the chapter teach
about sharing and giving? On what grounds were portions given to the priests
and Levites?
