When you cross the Jordan into Canaan, drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images

 Numbers 33:1-56

Here are the stages in the journey of the Israelites when they came out of Egypt by divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. At the Lord’s command Moses recorded the stages in their journey. This is their journey by stages: 

On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho the Lord said to Moses,  “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan, drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places. Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess. Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live. And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.

Why?

Moses mentioned what Israelites had to do after they crossed the Jordan River and entered the promised land. 

drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places. 

And the consequence of what Israelites did became truth as Moses said.

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以色列人在曠野的32站。

1)亞倫，米利暗為代表的第一代

2)40-49節: 第二代要跨越約旦河

3)50-56節： 摩西在約旦河邊講申記，主要是不要受到異族文化影響，去除所有會影響人神關係的東西，不留情面的除去。建立自己的城池、家室與生命。記得神的恩典，安營： 這裏不是我們的居所，只是暫時的地方！

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How?

How great and reality of the word of the Lord! May my life trust in the Lord and obey God's commands.