From: "FamilyNet"
Bible Reading for February 28
Deuteronomy 1
[1] These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan
in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and
Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. [2] (There are eleven days'
journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.)
[3] And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the
first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel,
according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; [4]
After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and
Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: [5] On this side
Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
[6] The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough
in this mount:
[7] Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and
unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the
vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites,
and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. [8] Behold, I
have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware
unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their
seed after them.
[9] And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you
myself alone:
[10] The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as
the stars of heaven for multitude.
[11] (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as
ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) [12] How can I myself alone
bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
[13] Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I
will make them rulers over you.
[14] And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good
for us to do.
[15] So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them
heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and
captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
[16] And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between
your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and
the stranger that is with him.
[17] Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as
well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment
is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will
hear it.
[18] And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. [19]
And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible
wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the
LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. [20] And I said unto
you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God
doth give unto us. [21] Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before
thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto
thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
[22] And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men
before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by
what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. [23] And the
saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
[24] And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley
of Eshcol, and searched it out.
[25] And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it
down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the
LORD our God doth give us.
[26] Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment
of the LORD your God:
[27] And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he
hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of
the Amorites, to destroy us.
[28] Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying,
The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up
to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
[29] Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. [30] The LORD
your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that
he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; [31] And in the wilderness, where
thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his
son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
[32] Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God, [33] Who went in
the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire
by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
[34] And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware,
saying,
[35] Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that
good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, [36] Save Caleb the son of
Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath
trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
[37] Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt
not go in thither.
[38] But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in
thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. [39] Moreover
your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in
that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and
unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
[40] But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by
the way of the Red sea.
[41] Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we
will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And
when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up
into the hill.
[42] And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I
am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. [43] So I spake unto
you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD,
and went presumptuously up into the hill. [44] And the Amorites, which dwelt
in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and
destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah. [45] And ye returned and wept before
the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
[46] So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode
there.
Deuteronomy 2
[1] Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the
Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
[2] And the LORD spake unto me, saying, [3] Ye have compassed this mountain
long enough: turn you northward. [4] And command thou the people, saying, Ye
are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which
dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto
yourselves therefore: [5] Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of
their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir
unto Esau for a possession.
[6] Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also
buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. [7] For the LORD thy God hath
blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this
great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou
hast lacked nothing. [8] And when we passed by from our brethren the children
of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and
from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
[9] And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with
them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession;
because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
[10] The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and
tall, as the Anakims;
[11] Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call
them Emims.
[12] The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau
succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in
their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD
gave unto them.
[13] Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over
the brook Zered.
[14] And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come
over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of
the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto
them.
[15] For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from
among the host, until they were consumed. [16] So it came to pass, when all
the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
[17] That the LORD spake unto me, saying, [18] Thou art to pass over through
Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: [19] And when thou comest nigh over against
the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not
give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have
given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
[20] (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old
time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; [21] A people great, and many,
and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they
succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
[22] As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed
the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead
even unto this day:
[23] And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims,
which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
[24] Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I
have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land:
begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. [25] This day will I
begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are
under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and
be in anguish because of thee. [26] And I sent messengers out of the
wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
[27] Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will
neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. [28] Thou shalt sell me meat
for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only
I will pass through on my feet; [29] (As the children of Esau which dwell in
Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass
over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
[30] But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy
God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver
him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. [31] And the LORD said unto me,
Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess,
that thou mayest inherit his land. [32] Then Sihon came out against us, he and
all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
[33] And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his
sons, and all his people.
[34] And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men,
and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
[35] Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the
cities which we took.
[36] From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the
city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong
for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us: [37] Only unto the land of the
children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor
unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad
us.
Deuteronomy 3
[1] Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan
came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. [2] And the
LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people,
and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto
Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. [3] So the LORD our God
delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and
we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
[4] And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we
took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of
Og in Bashan.
[5] All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside
unwalled towns a great many.
[6] And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon,
utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. [7] But all
the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
[8] And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites
the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount
Hermon;
[9] (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
[10] All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah
and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. [11] For only Og king of
Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead
of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the
length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
[12] And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by
the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto
the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
[13] And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I
unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan,
which was called the land of giants. [14] Jair the son of Manasseh took all
the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them
after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, unto this day.
[15] And I gave Gilead unto Machir. [16] And unto the Reubenites and unto the
Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the
border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of
Ammon; [17] The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth
even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah
eastward. [18] And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God
hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your
brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war. [19] But your
wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much
cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you; [20] Until the
LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they
also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan:
and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
[21] And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all
that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do
unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. [22] Ye shall not fear them: for
the LORD your God he shall fight for you. [23] And I besought the LORD at that
time, saying, [24] O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy
greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth,
that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? [25] I pray
thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly
mountain, and Lebanon. [26] But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and
would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no
more unto me of this matter.
[27] Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and
northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for
thou shalt not go over this Jordan. [28] But charge Joshua, and encourage him,
and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall
cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
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