NUMBERS.

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• Part First. The First Census and the Order of the Camp and March. Num. 1:1-10:10.
• Part Second. The Wanderings from Mount Sinai to the Plains of Moab. Num. 10:11-22:1.
• Part Third. Events While the Camp Was in the Plains of Moab. Num. 22:2-36:13.
• Review.

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PART FIRST.

THE FIRST CENSUS AND THE ORDER OF THE CAMP
AND MARCH.

i. 1-x. 10.

§ I. THE FIRST CENSUS. i. 1-46.

• Where and when was this census taken? i. 1.
• Age and sex of those numbered? 2, 3.
• The whole number? 46.
• How could it be done in one day? 17, 18, cf. Ex. xviii. 13-27.
• The number of the largest and smallest tribes? 27, 35.
• Which the smallest whole tribe? 37.

§ II. THE PLAN OF THE ENCAMPMENT. i. 47-ii. 34.

• What of the Levites? i. 47-54.
• What tribes constituted the eastern camp? ii. 1-9.
• What tribes the southern camp? 10-16.
• What tribes the western camp? 18-24.
• What, the northern? 25-31.
• How was kinship regarded in this arrangement?
• Where were the Levites and the Tent of Meeting? 17. [77]

§ III. THE LEVITES AND THEIR SERVICE. iii. 1-iv. 49.

• Give the names of Aaron's sons. iii. 1-4.
• What service assigned the Levites? 5-10.
• What exchange involved in this? 11-13.
• How were the Levites to be numbered? 14-20.
• The number of Gershonites? their camp? and their burden? 21-26.
• Those of the Kohathites? 27-32.
• Those of the Merarites? 33-39.
• How does the aggregate in iii. 39, compare with the preceding figures?
• What of the surplus three hundred? [Ans. Probably firstborns, not subject to exchange, and therefore not counted in this aggregate.]
• How many firstborns of all the tribes? 40-43.
• Order concerning the surplus firstborns? 44-51.
• What new numbering of each division? iv. 2, 3, 22, 23, 29, 30.
• Which the most numerous under this count? iv. 36, 40, 44.

§ IV. A GROUP OF STATUTES, CEREMONIAL AND CIVIL. v. 1-v. 27.

• Repeat the priestly benediction. vi. 22-26.

§ V. OFFERING MADE BY THE PRINCES. vii. 1-89.

1. An Offering of Wagons and Oxen. vii. 1-9.

• Why this section delayed? 1, cf. Ex. xl. 17.
• What articles could the Merarites transport on wagons?
• What kind of wagons?

2. Offerings for the Dedication of the Altar. 10-83.

• How did the order of giving correspond with the order of the encampment? Cf. ii. 1-34.

3. The Aggregate of Gifts. 84-88. [78]

• When did the twelve days begin? 88, 10, 11.

4. How Moses Now Hears the Lord. 89.

§ VI. THE CONSECRATION OF THE LEVITES. viii. 1-26.

• What the process? 7, 9-12.
• What the water of extirpation? 7, cf. xix. 1-22.
• In what sense "a wave offering"? 10, 11, cf. Lev. vii. 28-34.
• How could all Israel lay hands on the Levites? 9, 10.
• How did the Levites lay hands on the bullocks? 12.
• At what age were they to serve in the Tent of Meeting? 23-26.
• What difference from the service at a later age? Cf. iv. 3, 23, 39.

§ VII. THE PASSOVER, THE PILLAR OF CLOUD, AND THE
SILVER TRUMPETS. ix. 1-x. 10.

1. The Second Passover Kept. ix. 1-14.

• How long after setting up the Tent of Meeting. 1-3, cf. Ex. xl. 17.
• Whence the requisite number of lambs?
• Whence the unleavened bread?
• Why did uncleanness prevent eating? 6.
• Could the stranger eat if uncircumcised? 14, cf. Ex. xii. 48.
• Meaning of "cut off from his people"? 13.

2. The Guidance of the Pillar of Cloud. 15-23.

• How was the movement of the cloud the command of Jehovah? 23.
• To what with us does the cloud correspond?

3. Two Silver Trumpets and Their Uses. x. 1-10.

• Could they be heard through the whole camp?
• How often blown over sacrifices? 10.
• How many notes could they sound?
• Was any other music appointed in the law? [79]

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PART SECOND.

THE WANDERINGS FROM MOUNT SINAI TO THE
PLAINS OF MOAB.

x. 11-xxii. 1.

§ I. THE MARCH FROM SINAI TO KADESH. x. 11-xii. 16.

1. The Removal from Sinai. x. 11-28.

• How long the stay at Sinai? 11, cf. Ex. xix. 1.
• What "the wilderness of Paran"? 12, cf. 33.
• Why Gershon and Merari next to the "camp of the children of Judah," and Kohath after that of Reuben? 17, 21.

2. Hobab Invited To Go with Israel. 29-32.

• Why need him "instead of eyes"? 31.
• Why the promise?
• Did he go at last? Cf. Judg. i. 16.
• Why not invite Jethro also? See Ex. xviii. 1.

3. The First Journey. 33-36.

• How three day's journey at once?
• In what sense did the ark "go before them"? 33, cf. 21; xiv. 44; xxxi. 6.
• Meaning of the watch-word of Moses? 35, 36.

4. Murmuring and Fire at Taberah. xi. 1-3.

• What kind of burning?

5. The People Murmur again, and Moses Cries for Help. 4-15.

• Who the "mixed multitude"? 4, cf. Ex. xii. 38.
• Why this [80] distress and weeping? 4-6.
• Why was Moses so disheartened? 11, 15.

6. God Promises Aid for Moses and Flesh for the People. 16-23.

• What spirit meant? 17, cf. 25.
• Why not eat the flocks and herds? 22.
• The fish of what sea? See the map.

7. The Seventy Elders Qualified. 24-30.

• Meaning of "came down in the cloud"? 25.
• Meaning of "did so no more"? and why not? 25.
• Why Eldad and Medad remain in camp? 26-28.

8. Quails Are Brought, and a Plague Follows. 31-35.

• Why on only two sides of the camp? 31.
• How much a homer? 32. [Ans. Five and a half bushels].
• What could be done with so many? 32, cf. 20.
• Did the eating increase the plague? 33.
• Why the name of the camp? 34.

9. The Sedition of Miriam and Aaron. xii. 1-16.

• Who were the Cushites? and where did they dwell? 1, cf. Gen. x. 6-12; ii. 13.
• What had become of Zipporah?
• Why the remark about the meekness of Moses? 3.
• Who wrote it?
• Meaning of "faithful in all mine house"? 7, cf. Heb. iii. 1-6.
• Why not smite Aaron also?
• Why put her out of the camp? 15, cf. Lev. xiii. 45, 46.
• Where did this occur? 16.
• Extent of the wilderness of Paran? 16, cf. x. 12, 33; xiii. 26. [81]

§ II. THE MISSION OF THE TWELVE SPIES. xiii. 1-xiv. 45.

1. They Are Selected and Sent. xiii. 1-20.

• Why one from each tribe?
• What "the south"? and "the mountains"? 17.
• In what month were they sent? 20.
• Who first suggested it? See Deut. i. 22.

2. Their Route and Their Report. 21-33.

• Where was Hamath? 21.
• Who the sons of Anak? 22, 32, 33.
• Why bear the cluster on a staff? 23.
• What of the valley of Eshcol now? See Lands of the Bible, 251, 490.
• Where was the camp when they returned? 26.
• What is meant by the land eating up its inhabitants? 32, 33.
• What was false in the report?

3. The People Rebel. xiv. 1-10.

• Why the weeping?
• Why was Joshua silent at first? 6, cf. xiii. 30.
• Why did the glory appear in the tent? 10.

4. God Proposes To Destroy the People, but Grants the
Prayer of Moses. 11-25.

• Why was it unbelief to believe the spies? 11.
• Why the proposal to Moses?
• Whence the words of Moses in 18. See Ex. xxxiv. 6, 7.
• Why pardon and yet punish them? 20, 23.
• In what direction were they now to turn? 25.

5. The Sentences on That Generation. 26-39.

• From what time were the forty years to be counted? 33, 34, cf. Josh. v. 5, 6.
• When occurred the death of the ten spies? 36, 37. [82]

6. Repentance too Late. 40-45.

• Why was this a transgression? 41.
• Did the Levites go? 44.
• Were they included in the sentence?

§ III. A GROUP OF RITUAL STATUTES. xv. 1-41.

• Why written here?

§ IV. THE REBELLION OF KORAH. xvi. 1-xvii. 15.

1. The Conspiracy Inaugurated. xvi. 1-3.

• What their complaint and their purpose? 3, cf. 9-11.

2. Moses Proposes an Appeal to God. 4-11.

• Why address them as "sons of Levi"? 7, 9, cf. 1, 2.

3. Dathan and Abiram Denounce Moses, and the Others
Assemble at the Tent. 12-19.

• Plausibility of their complaint? 13, 14.
• How get so many censers in a day? 17.
• On which side was the mass of the people? 19.

4. The Lord's Decision. 20-35.

• Why say "shall one man sin," etc.? 22.
• What congregation addressed in 24.
• What elders followed? 25.
• Where were the tents? 27, cf. 1, 2.
• Meaning of "the men that appertained unto Korah"? 32, cf. xxvi. 11.

5. The Censers Are Made a Memorial. 36-40.

• Why were they "holy"? 38.
• How did the plates serve as a memorial? 40.

6. The People Murmur and Are Saved by Aaron. 41-50.

• Why censure Moses and Aaron? 41.
• Significance of "the [83] glory"? 42.
• Significance of Aaron's act? 48.
• The whole number who perished? 49, 35.
• Of what is this a sample? Cf. 35.

7. Aaron's Priesthood Still Further Confirmed. xvii. 1-13.

• Was there a chance in this for fraud? 8.
• What the immediate effect of all? 12, 13.
• Was there ever another attempt to usurp the priesthood?

§ V. LAW FOR THE SUPPORT OF PRIESTS AND LEVITES. xviii. 1-32.

• Propriety of reserving this law till this time? Cf. § IV.

§ VI. THE LAW OF UNCLEANNESS FROM A DEAD BODY. xix. 1-22.

• How many were made unclean by the deaths of § IV?
• Appropriates of the time of enacting this law?

§ VII. EVENTS AT KADESH AND MOUNT HOR. xx. 1-xxi. 3.

1. Death of Miriam, and the Sin of Moses and Aaron. xx. 1-13.

• First month of what year? 1, cf. 28; xxxiii. 38.
• How long since the first arrival at Kadesh? Cf. 11; xiii. 20.
• What events are recorded in this period?
• How many encampments in this period? See xxxiii. 18-36.
• How then was most of the time spent?
• In what regions were these wanderings?
• Why no lack of water on the first visit to Kadesh?
• What was the sin of Moses and Aaron? xx. 9-12; Ps. cvi. 32, 33.
• Where was the rod now kept? 9. [84]

2. Passage Through Edom Sought and Refused. 14-21.

• How did Edom know of Israel's "travail"?
• Where was Kadesh? 16, cf. 26.
• Describe Edom. Lands of the Bible, 495.
• Why did Moses wish to pass through? 17.
• Why the refusal after assurances given?
• Which way did Israel now turn? 21.

3. Death of Aaron at Mount Hor. 22-29.

• Describe mount Hor. Lands of the Bible, 495.
• What was the age of Aaron? xxxiii. 39.
• Why the mourning fixed at thirty days?

4. Israel Attacked by the King of Arad. xxi. 1-3.

• When this attack? 1, cf. xiv. 45; Deut. i. 44.
• Why the account here repeated? See 2, 3.
• When was the vow executed? Judg. i. 17.
• When, then, and by whom, was verse 3 written?

§ VIII. THE JOURNEY FROM MOUNT HOR TO THE PLAINS
OF MOAB. xxi. 4-xxii. 1.

1. The Plague of Fiery Serpents. xxi. 4-9.

• What arm of the Red Sea? 4.
• Why discouraged because of the way? 4, cf. Lands of the Bible, 495.
• Was it the hot or the cool season? Cf. xxxiii. 38.

2. The Journey to Oboth and thence to Arnon. 10-15.

• Where was Ijeabarim? 11.
• Where was Oboth?
• Had they now passed Edom?
• Describe the river Arnon. Lands of the [85] Bible, 40, 42.
• What "the book of the wars of the Lord"? 14.
• Point in the quotation from it? Cf. 13.

3. Journey from the Arnon to Pisgah. 16-20.

• How was the water at Beer given? 16, 18.
• Why the song? 17, 18.
• "Which looketh down" upon what "desert"? 20.

4. Sihon Defeated and His Country Occupied? 21-25.

• When the message sent? 21, cf. 13.
• Why need to pass through?
• Extent of Sihon's dominion? 24.
• Where was the territory of Ammon? 24.

5. The Career of Sihon. 26-31.

• How long had he held the northern part of Moab? 26.
• Who composed this poem? and when? 27, 30.

6. Bashan Conquered, and the Camp Pitched in the Plains of
Moab. xxi. 32-xxii. 1.

• Why this conquest? 33.
• Where was Bashan?
• Who were the Amorites? 34, cf. Gen. xv. 16; Deut. xx. 17, et al.
• Describe the Plains of Moab. xxiii. 1, cf. xxxi. 12: Lands of the Bible, 345, 346.
• In what sense "beyond the Jordan" and "at Jericho"? xxii. 1. [86]

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PART THIRD.

EVENTS WHILE THE CAMP WAS IN THE PLAINS
OF MOAB.

xxii. 2-xxxvi. 13.

§ I. BALAAM'S ATTEMPTS TO CURSE ISRAEL. xxii. 2-xxv. 18.

1. Balak Sends for Balaam. xxii. 2-14.

• Why "unto the elders of Midian"? 4, cf. 7.
• Where was Israel when the messengers were sent? 5.
• What was Balak's conception of Balaam's power? 6.
• By what river did Balaam live? 5, cf. xxiii. 7.

2. He Sends again and Succeeds. 15-21.

• Why say he was not able to go beyond the word of God? 18.
• Why now permit him to go? 20.

3. Balaam Is Rebuked and Warned. 22-38.

• Why angry with him after telling him to go? 22.
• Why the warning? 35.
• Why the changes of place by the angel?
• Why cause the ass to speak? II. Pet. ii. 16.
• Why was he not frightened when the ass spoke? 27, 28.
• Whence the writer's information?
• Where were Balak's messengers? 22.

4. Balaam's First Attempt. xxii. 39-xxiii. 12.

• Why Balak's sacrifices? xxii. 40.
• Where must the high places of Baal have been? xxii. 41, cf. 1; xxiii. 13.
• Why the sacrifices? and their number? xxiii. 1, 2.
• Why the "peradventure"? 3. [87] 
• Why go to "a bare height"? 3.
• What blessing pronounced? 10.
• How was Israel to dwell alone, and not be numbered with the nations? 9.
• Connection of the closing sentiment? 10.

5. A Change of Place and Another Attempt. 13-26.

• Why the change of place? 13, cf. 9, 10.
• Why speak of God as not lying or repenting? 19.
• In what sense iniquity or perverseness not seen in Israel? 21.
• Were these Israelites the sinners of the wanderings?
• Why say, "no enchantment or divination with Israel"? 23.
• What prediction in this speech?
• Why say, "Neither curse," nor "bless"? 25.

6. Another Place, and a Third Attempt. xxiii. 27-xxiv. 13.

• Why not go as before? xxiv. 1.
• Meaning of, "meet with enchantments"?
• What prediction this time? 8, 9.
• Why angry with Balaam? 10.
• Why was Balaam so faithful? 13, cf. xxii. 35.
• Had he been a prophet before this, or only an enchanter? xxiv. 2; xxii. 8.

7. Other Predictions. xxiv. 14-25.

• Who the star and what the sceptre? 17-19; cf. 14; II. Sam. viii. 2, 14.
• Is there any allusion in this to Christ?
• Why Amalek called "first of the nations"? 20, cf. Ex. xvii. 8-16.
• Who the Kenite? and what his dwelling place? 21, cf. Gen. xv. 19.
• Who was Asshur? and what captivity meant? 22.
• What ships from the coast of Kittim? 24.
• How did they afflict Asshur and Eber?
• How did he "come to destruction"?
• How did the king and the prophet part? 25. [88]

8. Israel Ensnared and Many Slain. xxv. 1-5.

• By whose advice was this done? 1, 2, cf. xxxi. 15, 16.
• Why did the husbands and fathers consent?
• Who the judges, and their men? 5, cf. Ex. xviii. 25, 26.

9. The Zeal of Phinehas, and Its Reward. 6-15.

• Why was Zimri so defiant? 6, 14, 15.
• What prompted Phinehas? 7, 8.
• Why was his deed commended? 13.
• Can it now be right to imitate him?
• How reconcile 9 with I. Cor. x. 8?

10. The Midianites To Be Punished. 16-18.

• Why they rather than Moab? Cf. 15, 1.

§ II. THE SECOND CENSUS. xxvi. 1-65.

• The age of those numbered and the place? 2, 3.
• The whole number? 51, cf. i. 46.
• Remarkable changes? 14, cf. i. 23; xxvi. 34, cf. i. 35.
• Which tribe now the largest? 22, cf. 27.
• Who left of the first census? 64, 65.
• How had the Levites fared? 62, cf. iii. 39.

§ III. MORE LAWS GIVEN, AND A SUCCESSOR TO MOSES
APPOINTED. xxvi. 1-xxx. 16.

1. The Law of Inheritance. xxvii. 1-11.

• What led to the enactment of this law? 1-4.
• Why say, "died in his sins"?

2. Moses Soon To Die, and Joshua To Succeed Him. 12-23.

• What the mountain of Abarim? 12.
• A new title for God. 16.
• Meaning of "go out" and "come in"? 17.
• Why lay the hand upon him? 18, cf. 20.
• His relation to Eleazar? 21. [89]

3. A Law Concerning Stated Burnt Offerings. xxviii. 1-xxix. 40.

4. A Law Concerning the Vows of Women. xxx. 1-16.

§ IV. THE PUNISHMENT OF THE MIDIANITES. xxxi. 1-54.

1. The Army and Their Victory. xxxi. 1-12.

• Whose vengeance to be executed? 3.
• What vessels of the sanctuary? 6, cf. x. 9.
• Why was Balaam among the slain? 8.
• In what sense did they slay "every male"? 7, cf. 17.

2. Disposal of the Women and Children. 13-18.

• Why the slaughter? 17.
• What use made of the female children? 18.
• Was this a piece of cruelty on the part of Israel?
• Was it on the part of God?

3. The Purification of the Warriors and the Prey. 19-24.

• What law required this? 21, cf. xix. 2-11.

4. The Quantity and Distribution of the Prey? 25-47.

• How account for the number of animals? 32-34.
• Why the even thousands?

5. An Oblation Made by the Officers. 48-54.

• Why no life lost? 49, cf. 50.
• How account for the quantity of golden ornaments? 50, cf. 52.
• How did they serve as a memorial? 54.

§ V. HOMES ASSIGNED TO TWO AND A HALF TRIBES. xxxii. 1-42.

• Why did Moses suspect their motive? 7, 8.
• What right to [90] grant them the land?
• Why charge Eleazar and Joshua concerning them? 28.
• Why did half tribe of Manasseh come into the arrangement? 33.

§ VI. A LIST OF ALL THE ENCAMPMENTS. xxxiii. 1-49.

• The number from Rameses to mount Sinai? xxxiii. 1-15.
• From mount Sinai to Kadesh the second time? 16-36.
• From Kadesh to the Plains of Moab? 37-49.
• Time occupied in the last division?
• The whole distance on direct lines?

§ VII. ORDERS CONCERNING THE PROMISED LAND. xxxiii. 50-xxxvi. 13.

1. General Order. xxxiii. 50-56.

• How drive them out? 52.
• What the "figured stones" and "high places"? 52.
• Rule of distribution of lands? 54.
• How "pricks in your eyes," and "thorns in your sides"? 55.

2. The Boundaries of the Land. xxxiv. 1-15.

• What the southern line? 3-5.
• Why say, the "Salt Sea"? 3.
• What the "brook of Egypt"? 5.
• Known points in the northern line? 7.
• What mount Hor? 7.
• What "the entering in of Hamath"? 8.
• What known points in the eastern line? 10-12.
• After "beyond the Jordan," why add, "eastward, toward the sunrising"? 15.

3. The Men To Divide the Land Are Appointed. 16-19.

• Why appointed in advance?

4. The Inheritance To Be Assigned the Levites. xxxv. 1-8.

• How the two measurements to be understood? 4, 5. [91]

5. The Law Concerning Cities of Refuge. 9-34.

6. An Addition to the Law of Inheritance. xxxvi. 1-13.

• The occasion of this enactment? 1-4.
• Why would the inheritance thus pass to another tribe? 3.
• Whom did the five women marry? 12.
• Where were these last commands and laws given? 13.

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REVIEW.

• How many times were the Israelites numbered? when? and where?
• What the whole number at each count?
• Which the largest tribe each time, and which the smallest?
• State the plan of their encampment.
• What the divisions of the Levites? their number? their encampment? and their duties in the wilderness?
• At what two different ages were they to enter service? and what two services? iv. 2, 3, 22, 23; viii. 23-26.
• How did Israel find lambs for the passover in the wilderness?
• What instruments of music were provided? and how were they used?
• When did the camp leave mount Sinai, and what the incidents on the way to Kadesh?
• What is said of Hobab?
• Whence, and for what purpose were the spies sent into Canaan?
• How did the people act in reference to their report? and what was the result?
• What proposal was made to Moses? and how did he act in regard to it? [92] 
• What the interval between the departure from Kadesh and the return to it?
• What events in this interval are recorded?
• What the purpose, and what the results, of the rebellion of Korah?
• What miracles were wrought in Aaron's favor?
• To what extent was the question settled for the future?
• Give the account of the death of Miriam, and that of Aaron,
• What the sin of Moses and Aaron?
• What the route from Kadesh to Canaan? and why?
• What sin and punishment of the people on this journey?
• What two enemies did Israel encounter? and what the results?
• Describe the camping place on the plains of Moab.
• Name the principal events during this encampment.
• Was Balaam a prophet?
• Why did he utter true prophecies.
• What the purpose of his sacrifices?
• How much of the future did his prophecies include?
• When the Midianites were slain, what was done with the women and children? and why?
• What led to two and a half tribes being settled east of the Jordan?
• How many encampments were there in the forty years?
• How then was most of the time spent?
• What was to be done with the Canaanites and their possessions?
• Give the boundaries of the Promised Land.
• What was to be the inheritance of the Levite?
• In what connections were the laws found in Numbers enacted?
• What number of years is covered by the book? Cf. Ex. xix. 1.
• How much of the journeying of Israel is included? [93]

[CNSH1 77-93]