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June 3 - Deuteronomy 2 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Tuesday, it's the 3rd of
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  June. Great to have your company.
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  Thanks for tapping on play and inviting me into your day so
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  that you and I can keep going on this journey together.
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  And this journey might be a little bit confusing.
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  If you had downloaded a Bible reading plan at the start of the
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  year, you'd be thinking you shouldn't be reading
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  Deuteronomy. We're not up to that at the
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  moment. Yes, that was the second last
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  edit and the final edit has now been made live.
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  And this is the edit where we are going to be reading
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  Deuteronomy for the next 4 weeks and then taking a break and
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  spending a few weeks reading some love poetry in the song
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  songs, which will be lovely. And then we'll return and finish
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  off Deuteronomy after that. So yes, that is what happened.
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  That is why some of you may have a reading guide that isn't quite
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  exactly what we're doing right now.
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  Or you might be one of these people who's thinking, what are
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  you talking about, mate? You just read the Bible every
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  day. Well, if you're interested, you
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  can download an outline of what we'll do for the year in the
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  show notes, but otherwise, just sit back, relax, and come on the
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  journey with me. However this works for you.
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  And Speaking of that journey, we are in that space, that liminal
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  space with Moses sharing these words to the people of Israel
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  before they enter the promised land, just recapping on their
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  story to date so that everyone knows the heritage before they
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  head off into that new space. So let's continue with the
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  journey as we read together Deuteronomy chapter 2.
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  Then we turned around and headed back across the wilderness
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  toward the Red Sea, just as the Lord had instructed me, and we
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  wandered around in the region of Mount Seir for a long time.
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  Then at last the Lord said to me, You have been wandering
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  around this Hill Country long enough.
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  Turn to the north. Give these orders to the people.
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  You will pass through the country belonging to your
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  relatives, the Edomites, the descendants of Esau who live in
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  Seer. The Edomites will feel
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  threatened, so be careful. Do not bother them, for I have
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  given them all the Hill Country around Mount Sia as their
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  property, and I will not give you even one square foot of
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  their land. If you need food to eat or water
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  to drink, pay them for it, for the Lord your God has blessed
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  you in everything you have done. He has watched your every step
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  through this great wilderness. During these 40 years, the Lord
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  your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.
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  So we bypassed the territory of our relatives, the descendants
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  of Esau who lived in Sia. We avoided the road through the
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  Arabah Valley that comes up from Elath and Ezion Gabba.
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  Then as we turn N along the desert route through Moab, the
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  Lord warned us. Do not bother the Moabites, the
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  descendants of Lot, or start a war with them.
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  I've given them A as their property, and I will not give
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  you any of their land. A race of giants called the
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  Emites had once lived in the area of A.
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  They were as strong and numerous and tall as the Anakites,
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  another race of giants. Both the Emites and Anakites are
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  also known as the Rephates, though the Moabites call them
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  Emites. In earlier times the Horites had
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  lived in Sayer, but they were driven out and displaced by the
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  descendants of Esau, just as Israel drove out the people of
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  Canaan. Then the Lord gave Israel their
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  land. Moses continued.
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  Then the Lord said to us, Get moving, cross the Zeared Brook.
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  So we crossed the brook. 38 years passed from the time we
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  first left Kadesh Bhaniya until we finally crossed the Zeared
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  Brook. By then all the men old enough
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  to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the Lord had
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  vowed would happen. The Lord struck them down until
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  they had all been eliminated from the community.
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  When all the men of fighting age had died, the Lord said to me To
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  Day You will cross the border of Moab at AA and enter the land of
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  the Ammonites, the descendants of Lot, but do not bother them
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  or start a war with them. I've given the land of Ammon to
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  them as their property, and I will not give you any of their
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  land. That area was once considered
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  the land of the rephates who had lived there, though the
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  Ammonites call them Zamzomites. They were also as strong and
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  numerous and tall as the Anakites, but the Lord destroyed
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  them so the Amorites could occupy their land.
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  He had done the same for the descendants of Esau who lived in
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  Sayer, for he destroyed the Horrites so they could settle
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  there in their place. The descendants of Esau lived
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  there to this day. A similar thing happened when
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  the Kaftorites from Crete invaded and destroyed the Avites
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  who had lived in villages in the area of Gaza.
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  Moses continued. Then the Lord said, Now get
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  moving. Cross the Arnon Gorge.
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  Look, I will hand over to you, Scion, the Amorite king of
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  Heshbon, and I will give you his land, attack him, and begin to
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  occupy the land. Beginning today, I will make
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  people throughout the earth terrified because of you.
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  When they hear reports about you, they will tremble with
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  dread and fear. Moses continued.
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  From the wilderness of Kedemoth, I sent ambassadors to King Scion
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  of Heshbon. With this proposal of peace, let
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  us travel through your land. We will stay on the main road
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  and won't turn off into the fields on either side.
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  Sell us food to eat and water to drink, and we will pay for it.
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  All we want is permission to pass through your land.
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  The descendants of Esau who lived in Saya allowed us to go
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  through their country, and so did the Moabites who live in Ah.
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  Let us pass through until we cross the Jordan into the land
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  the Lord our God is giving us. But King Scion of Heshbon
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  refused to allow us to pass through, because the Lord your
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  God made Scion stubborn and defiant so he could help you
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  defeat him as he has now done. Then the Lord said to me, Look,
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  I have begun to hand King Scion and his land over to you.
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  Begin now to conquer and occupy his land.
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  Then King Scion declared war on us and mobilised his forces at
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  Jehas. But the Lord our God handed him
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  over to us and we crushed him, his sons and all his people.
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  We conquered all his towns and completely destroyed everyone,
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  men, women and children. Not a single person was spared.
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  We took all the livestock as plunder for ourselves, along
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  with anything of value from the towns we ransacked.
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  The Lord our God also helped us conquer Aroa on the edge of the
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  Arnon Gorge, and the town in the gorge and the whole area as far
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  as Gilead. No town had walls too strong for
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  us. However, we avoided the land of
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  the Ammonites all along the Jabok River and the towns in the
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  Hill Country, all the places the Lord our God had commanded us to
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  leave alone. Ah Lord, it is good for us to go
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  over the story, the story of you interacting with us and our
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  people. Story of all of your goodness
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  and provision for us. Ah Lord, we are not very good at
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  looking back and seeing your hand in our lives.
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  We are so often busy with the current moment or worrying about
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  what's coming up. Lord, give us moment to pause as
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  we think about our lives, to see the numerous places with your
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  fingerprints all over them as you walk with us and not
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  necessarily laying straight the paths before us so that
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  everything's easy but but shaping us, moulding us, loving
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  us through every step of our journey will help us always be
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  aware of your place in our lives, of your presence, of your
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  interest in what goes on to us, and most of all, your love for
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  us. Thank you for making that so
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  clear by giving us Jesus and for everything he did for us.
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  And so we're able to pray all of these things in his saving name.
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  Amen.