(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Numbers 1:44–46, “These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers. So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.”
This section summarises the census taken by Israel’s leaders before they went into the Promised Land so that they could apportion the Land according the the needs of the tribes, clans and families. At this stage it is a good idea to distinguish between invasion and possession. In the last decade the United Nations troops invaded Iraq and were successful in that invasion. However, later they were never able to posses Iraq. The same was true of Israel.
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