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Balaam was prophet, Balak was king of Moab......Balak wanted Balaam to curse Israelite army

Numbers 22:4-6 (ESV)
And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,

got it right finally

Numbers 22:38 (ESV)
Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power of my own to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak."

God uses donkey to put him in place

Numbers 22:30 (ESV)
And the donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way?" And he said, "No."

Did the right thing first, listened to God

Numbers 22:13 (ESV)
So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your own land, for the Lord has refused to let me go with you."

Moses serpent

Numbers 21:8-9 (ESV)
And the Lord said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."

Spring up, oh well, within my soul, this life abundantly

Numbers 21:17 (ESV)
Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well!—Sing to it!—

what is the book of wars?

Numbers 21:14 (ESV)
Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord, "Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon,

Did not glorify God......made it seem like it was his deal......got frustrated with the people......let anger get the best of him.......struck the rock instead of speaking to it......did not trust and Glorify God

Numbers 20:10-11 (ESV)
Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?"

Speak, not strike.....tell not strike

Numbers 20:8 (ESV)
"Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle."

Had to be exhausted with hearing the same stuff from these guys

Numbers 20:3-5 (ESV)
And the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord!

Interesting holiness passage

Numbers 15:37-41 (ESV)
The Lord said to Moses,

Whether intentionally or not......must atone

Numbers 15:28 (ESV)
And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

Tried to come back to Lord .... damage was done

Numbers 14:39-45 (ESV)
When Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, the people mourned greatly.

God passes judgment....Joshua man of trust and faith

Numbers 14:38 (ESV)
Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive.

Caleb a great man of faith.....will inherit promised land......different spirit than others

Numbers 14:21-24 (ESV)
But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord,

Moses intercedes, appeals to Gods hesed

Numbers 14:18-19 (ESV)
'The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.'

Rather die or go back to slavery than go Gods way! Wow

Numbers 14:2 (ESV)
And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 14:4 (ESV)
And they said to one another, "Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt."

Caleb faith

Numbers 13:30 (ESV)
But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."

Caleb faith

Numbers 13:30 (ESV)
But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."

Moses still prayed

Numbers 12:13 (ESV)
And Moses cried to the Lord, "O God, please heal her—please."

God punks aaron and Miriam

Numbers 12:1-9 (ESV)
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.

Moses meek

Numbers 12:3 (ESV)
Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.

God gave them what they wanted

Numbers 11:33 (ESV)
While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck down the people with a very great plague.

Spirit and prophecy

Numbers 11:25 (ESV)
Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.

Moses questions God

Numbers 11:21-23 (ESV)
But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!'