Hey, you're listening to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

I am Shelby, and this is Scott.

And today we're talking through numbers 19 through 21.

But first, I said this a couple episodes ago.

I feel like you have to celebrate a lot when you're reading the Bible in a year,

especially if it's your first time because it's an everyday commitment. So today's day 45.

It's a good round number. Yeah, that is a good round number. I thought that. I saw that little

note. I was like, man, let's celebrate day 45. So high five, wherever you're at, way to go.

Even if you're reading day 45 on day 50, day 60, day 75, keep going. Keep going.

Okay, numbers 19 through 21. What's going on in these chapters? Yeah, some pivotal moments.

We reach, I think, a big turning point. So to back up a little bit, back in chapters 13 and 14,

the Israelites had rebelled against God by refusing to go into the land of Canaan. They are freaked out. God told them they would be punished by wandering in the wilderness of 40 years. And then by the time we get to chapter 20, the 40 years are almost over. So it's like the Bible doesn't really say a whole lot about what happens in those 40 years.

But we get, you know, we start to see signs of those 40 years coming to an end, a transition happening.

Moses's sister, Miriam, passes away in these chapters.

Aaron passes away as well in response to his sin.

And then you have this moment with Moses, whose defiance against God causes him to miss out

on entering the promised lands with the Israelites. And it's also important in these chapters

to point out that you see some early military victories for the Israelites. So they defeat the

Canaanite king Erad. Then later they defeat the king's Sihon and Og. And the defeats of those two kings,

Sihon and Og, will be referred to several more times throughout the Old Testament. But before they

even enter into the promised land, we see that God is showing them that if they trust in them,

he will give them victory. Yeah. So he's kind of even answering their fears and

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