Deuteronomy Part 4

Deuteronomy-4.mp3

Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore

January 6, 2018

Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 3:1-5:

Continuing on in the study of Deuteronomy ... Moses was giving the Israelites their history over the last 40 or so years. They had just completed the victory over Sihon, king of the Amorites, and destroyed him and his people. He then tells of the battle with king Og. He tells of seven things that happened:

  1. The LORD God delivered king Og into the hands of Israel with all his people. God was the one who gave Israel their victory; it was not Israel on their own who defeated king Og. All people of the earth were not equal in the eyes of God. His covenant people were His elect. Other races were fit for destruction.
  2. Israel smote Og until there was none remaining. Israel, under their God’s orders, committed genocide.
  3. Israel took all his cities, being 60 walled cities, many villages, and unwalled towns.
  4. Israel destroyed all of the individuals in Og’s kingdom—men, women, and children as Israel did the Amorites under king Sihon.
  5. Israel took all the cattle, and the spoil of all the cities and villages as a spoil to themselves.
  6. Israel took from these two kings (Sihon and Og) all the land along the river Jordan from the Arnon River on the south to mount Hermon on the north, which was beyond the Sea of Galilee.
  7. Israel took all the cities of the plains, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan.
  8. Israel gave all this land to half the tribe of Manasseh, all the tribe of Gad and all the tribe of Reuben.
  9. Israel camped at Beth-peor.