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show Your servant Your greatness and Your
mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven
or on earth who can do anything like Your
3:11 an iron bedstead. The bedstead may works and Your mighty deeds? I pray, let me
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actually have been a coffin, which would have cross over and see the good land beyond the
been large enough to also hold tomb objects. Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Leba-
The size of the “bedstead,” 13.5 by 6 feet, non.’
emphasized the largeness of Og, who was a 26 “But the LORD was angry with me on your
giant (the last of the Rephaim, a race of account, and would not listen to me. So the
giants). As God had given Israel victory over LORD said to me: ‘Enough of that! Speak no
the giant Og, so He would give them victory more to Me of this matter. Go up to the top of
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over the giants in the land.
Pisgah, and lift your eyes toward the west, the
north, the south, and the east; behold it with
your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jor-
four cubits its width, according to the standard dan. But command Joshua, and encourage
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cubit. him and strengthen him; for he shall go over
12 “And this land, which we possessed at that before this people, and he shall cause them to
time, from Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, inherit the land which you will see.’
and half the mountains of Gilead and its cities, I 29 “So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth
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gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites. The Peor.
rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of “Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and
Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All 4 the judgments which I teach you to
the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was observe, that you may live, and go in and pos-
called the land of the giants. Jair the son of sess the land which the LORD God of your
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Manasseh took all the region of Argob, as far fathers is giving you. You shall not add to the
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as the border of the Geshurites and the word which I command you, nor take from it,
Maachathites, and called Bashan after his own that you may keep the commandments of the
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name, Havoth Jair, to this day.) LORD your God which I command you. Your
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15 “Also I gave Gilead to Machir. And to the
Reubenites and the Gadites I gave from Gilead
as far as the River Arnon, the middle of the
river as the border, as far as the River Jabbok, 4:2 You shall not add…nor take from. The
the border of the people of Ammon; the plain word that God had given to Israel through
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also, with the Jordan as the border, from Moses was complete and sufficient to direct
Chinnereth as far as the east side of the Sea of the people. Thus, this Law, the gift of God at
the Arabah (the Salt Sea), below the slopes of Horeb, could not be supplemented or
Pisgah. reduced. Anything that adulterated or contra-
18 “Then I commanded you at that time, say- dicted God’s law would not be tolerated (see
ing: ‘The LORD your God has given you this 12:32; Prov. 30:6; Rev. 22:18,19).
land to possess. All you men of valor shall
cross over armed before your brethren, the
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children of Israel. But your wives, your little eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal
ones, and your livestock (I know that you have Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed
much livestock) shall stay in your cities which from among you all the men who followed
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I have given you, until the LORD has given Baal of Peor. But you who held fast to the
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rest to your brethren as to you, and they also LORD your God are alive today, every one of
possess the land which the LORD your God is you.
giving them beyond the Jordan. Then each of 5 “Surely I have taught you statutes and judg-
you may return to his possession which I have ments, just as the LORD my God commanded
given you.’ me, that you should act according to them in
21 “And I commanded Joshua at that time, the land which you go to possess. Therefore
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saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the LORD be careful to observe them; for this is your wis-
your God has done to these two kings; so will dom and your understanding in the sight of
the LORD do to all the kingdoms through the peoples who will hear all these statutes,
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which you pass. You must not fear them, for and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and
the LORD your God Himself fights for you.’ understanding people.’
23 “Then I pleaded with the LORD at that time, 7 “For what great nation is there that has God
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saying: ‘O Lord GOD, You have begun to so near to it, as the LORD our God is to us, for
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