Canaan
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FIFTEEN JUDGES RULED the people of Israel during a period of four hundred and fifty years; that is, from the death of Joshua, till Saul was chosen as their first king. Samuel was the last of these judges; and he was a priest and a great prophet, as well as a ruler of the people.…
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SAMSON MARRIED THE daughter of one of the Philistines; but afterward her father took her away from him, and, in revenge, he killed great numbers of them, and destroyed their crops and vineyards. The Philistines then came out in great force against the men of Judah, and demanded that Samson should be given up to…
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After the fall of Jericho, the children of Israel made numerous conquests, and God once, temporarily halted the sun and moon long enough for them to complete the defeat of their enemies. The Israelites took control of Canaan and divided it among their twelve tribes, descendants of Israel’s twelve sons. God granted them rest from…
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The Israelites, often granted victories by God, fought their way to the promised land, causing fear among the surrounding nations.. Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, the king of Bashan, both came out with armies against them; but the Israelites overcame them, and took possession of their territories. The victorious Israel army gathered in…
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The people initially apologized for disobeying God, but eventually forgot about it and, when without water, they continued to curse Moses and Aaron. Then God commanded Moses to take the rod with which he had struck the rock in Horeb, and before all the people to speak to a certain rock, which He pointed out,…
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In the wilderness of Paran, Moses sent twelve spies to inform the Israelites about the land of Canaan and its people.. He also told the men to bring back with them some of it’s fruits. So the twelve men were out forty days. They brought large grapes from Eshcol so large and ripe that two…
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MOSES WAS BROUGHT up in the court of Egypt. But when he was about forty years old, he went among his own people again, and was grieved to find how sadly they were oppressed by the Egyptians. Once he saw an Egyptian ill-treating a Hebrew; so he killed the Egyptian, and buried his body in…
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After Jacob came back to the land of Canaan with his eleven sons, another son was born to him, the second child of his wife Rachel, whom Jacob loved so well. But soon after the baby came, his mother Rachel died, and Jacob was filled with sorrow. Even to this day you can see the place…
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After the destruction of Sodom and the other cities of the plain, Abraham moved away from Hebron. He journeyed south and west, into the land of the Philistines, near the Great Sea, and made his home in a place called Gerar. Here he lived only a short when God gave to him and Sarah the child…
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ABRAM WAS NOW growing old. Although he had great riches and many servants, yet he had no children. One night while he lay asleep in his tent-home, God appeared to him in a vision. “Do not be afraid,” God told him, “for I will protect you, and will give you a great reward because you are…