Numbers 33:50-56 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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A Command to Destroy the Objects of Canaanite Worship. The substance of this is given also in Exodus 23:24; Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 12:2 f. With Numbers 33:55 cf. Joshua 23:13; Judges 2:3.

Numbers 33:52. figured stones: stones covered with idolatrous emblems high places: since these could be demolished, the expression must here mean not natural heights (Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 16:12) but artificial mounds or shrines (cf. 1 Kings 11:7).

Numbers 33:54. Render, wheresoever the lot falleth for any (family or clan), to that it shall belong. The lot was an appeal to God (cf. 1 Samuel 14:41 mg., Acts 1:24-26; Proverbs 16:33; Jonah 1:7).

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Numbers 33:50-56

50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the mored inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

56 Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.