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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Today, Moses kind of did my job for me, recapping our journey since the Exodus. But don't worry, I always have plenty to say. Let's talk about a few things of note from today's reading. First, Moses recounts all the places they camped.
If you've ever had a doubt that scripture was real, this list should help settle that for you. No author would make up these kind of details in hopes of good book sales, and no one who was trying to sound impressive about his leadership skills would tell you every step of how this 11-day journey took him 40 years. At the end of chapter 33, we get some instructions from God.
He tells Moses to instruct the people about some very important business they need to attend to when they cross the Jordan. They need to drive out everyone who lives there. All of them, all, all, all of them, all of them. And all the things they worship too. Tear down their altars and their idols because if they don't get rid of everything, some of it is going to come back to haunt them.
And on top of that, God will punish them too. Double whammy. This isn't necessarily a command to kill them, just drive them out. God knows how easily the hearts of his people are led astray when temptation is near. In chapter 34, God gives the boundaries of the promised land for the first time. Up until now, we've only known of it generically as Canaan or the promised land.
There are a few places used as markers in this layout that you may know of, but probably not by the names used in the text. So let's walk through them. The salt sea, in verse 3, is the Dead Sea. Because while a normal ocean is 3.5% salt, the Dead Sea is 33.7% salt. It's 10 times as salty. That's why you float when you get into it. You don't have to try to float in it. You can't not float in it.
It floats you whether you want to float or not. But you want to float. It's pretty cool. The salt concentration is also the reason nothing can live in the Dead Sea, which is where it got its modern name. But here's an interesting fact. Ezekiel 47 and Zechariah 14 prophesy about a day when there will be fresh water in the Dead Sea and it will be filled with fish. So get your float on while you can.
The Great Sea in verse 6 is the Mediterranean Sea. And the Sea of Chenarith in verse 11 is the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus spent most of his three years of ministry. If it helps you out, you might want to write those names in your Bible or look at a map. We've included the map from yesterday's episode in today's show notes as well, so look for that link if you want a visual.
But keep in mind that some of the boundaries are estimates or generalities. It's hard to tell where the lines fall sometimes. And in addition to that, add the fact that the Israelites did not occupy all the land they were promised, and they also occupied some extra land they weren't promised, where the Transjordanian tribes settled in yesterday's reading.
So 9.5 tribes settled in what was originally known as the Promised Land, and 2.5 tribes settled in the above and beyond the Promised Land, the Bonus Land, the Transjordan. What was your God shot today? Mine was a superiority over all other gods.
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