Part 2 – Kingdom Divided

 

 

H8403  tabnîyth ::  structure; by implication, a model, resemblance:—figure, form, likeness, pattern, similitude.

תַּבְנִית tabnîyth  20x in 17v

 

 

Numbers 13 : The Spies’ Reports

      25When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days, 26they proceeded to come to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land. 27Thus they told him, and said, “We went in to the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28“Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29“Amalek is living in the land of the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill country, and the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan.”

      30Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it.” 31But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.” 32So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size. 33“There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

The only one’s that brought back positive report  ::

 

Numbers 17 : Aaron’s Rod Buds

      8Now on the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.

Aarons had budded, bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.  It was kept as a token against the rebels and murmuring and placed before the ark of the covenant.

2nd Census of west Taken 38 years after spies sent out.  21.7%

For 19 years they passed the boundaries of Esau

For 19 years they passed the passed the road of the Wilderness of Moab (jasher 84)

1/11/40 Just before entering the promised land, God added a new covenant, to that which was given to the generation before.

The covenant that came to the first generation under Moses, were not so much the instructions, but the blessings and curses that would result pending the obedience or disobedience to the Law. 

The Covenant at Moab was an expansion of the blessings and curses given at Horeb. Compare to what Moses says to the next generation:

 

13“For the curse, these shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 14“The Levites shall then answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice, 

 Curses came from the Children of Rachel and Leah’shandmaids.

With the exception of Reuben who was the 1st born of Leah but lost his birthright to Joseph.

31And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes 32(but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel), 33because they havea forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did..

The Northern Kingdom did nothing different than what Solomon did under his rule.

In 721 BC God had Assyria conquer Sumeria and take the Northern Kingdom captive to Assyria. 

We must remember it was Ephraim that was promised to be the fullness of the nations.  

The Gentiles.  

The fullness of those not belonging to God.

Here we see the prophesy of Ephraim begin to manifest.

 

Now we see this scripture in Deuteronomy beginning to unfold, as the people of Israel no longer remain a people, but begin assimilating into the nations. 

 

 

8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.