Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, You have set us apart by Your commandments and have commanded us to actively study Your Torah. Please YHVH, our Elohim, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of all Your people Israel. May You open our eyes to see marvellous truths from Your Torah. Thank You for calling us who were once gentiles excluded from the citizenship of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise having no expectation and without Elohim- but now through the blood of Messiah we have gained access into the covenant and have obtained citizenship into the commonwealth of Israel. Blessed are You, YHVH, Who teaches Torah to His people Israel. Amein
ומקנה רב
– how to create and
maintain large amounts of wealth.
YHVH chose Yakov’s
family to be a blessing to all the families of the earth – past present and
future – Gen 28:12 And he Yakov dreamed and saw a ladder set up on the
earth, and its top reached to the heavens, and saw messengers of Elohim going
up and coming down on it.
Gen
28:13 And see, יהוה
stood above it and said, “I am יהוה Elohim of Aḇraham
your father and the Elohim of Yitsḥaq. The land on which you are lying, I give it to
you and your seed.
Gen
28:14 “And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall
break forth to the west and to the east, to the north and the south. And all
the clans of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed.
Gen
28:15 “And see, I am with you and shall guard you wherever you go, and
shall bring you back to this land. For I am not going to leave you until I have
done what I have spoken to you.”
Gen 28:16 And Ya‛aqoḇ awoke from his sleep and said, “Truly, יהוה is in this place, and I did not know it.”
Yahshua
himself quotes this passage in
Joh 1:51 And He (Yahshua) said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, from now on you shall see the heaven opened, and the messengers of Elohim ascending and descending upon the Son of Aḏam.”e Footnote: e Gen_28:12 -daleth in Yehudah
Once again we see Israels ‘’shocking disobedience’’ in not following YHVH’s commands- Rom7
Reuven and Gad Settle in Gilead
Num 32:1 And the children of Re’uḇěn
and the children of Gaḏ had much livestock, a large number. And they saw the land of Ya‛zěr
and the land of Gil‛aḏ and saw that the place was a place for livestock.
Num 32:2 So the children of Gaḏ
and the children of Re’uḇěn came and spoke to Mosheh, and to El‛azar the priest, and to the
leaders of the congregation, saying,
Num 32:3 “Ataroth, and Diḇon,
and Ya‛zěr, and Nimrah, and Ḥeshbon, and El‛alěh, and Seḇam, and Neḇo,
and Be‛on,
Num 32:4 the land which יהוה had stricken before the congregation of Yisra’ěl, is a land for
livestock, and your servants have livestock.”
Num 32:5 And they said, “If we
have found favour in your eyes, let this land be given to your servants as a
possession, and do not let us pass over the Yarděn.”
Num 32:6 And Mosheh said to the
children of Gaḏ and to the children of Re’uḇěn, “Are your
brothers to go into the battle while you yourselves sit here? (this was
not going to be a short war)
Num 32:7 “Now why do you discourage the heart of the children of Yisra’ěl from passing over into the land which יהוה has given them?
Yahoshua/Joshua 13:1–7 reveals that not every bit of territory was ruled by the Yisraelites during Yehoshua's lifetime. Jos 13:1 And Yehoshua was old, advanced in years. And יהוה said to him, “You are old, advanced in years, and still much of the land remains to be possessed.
Num 32:8 “Thus your fathers did
when I sent them away from Qaḏěsh Barněa to see the land.
Num 32:9 “For when they went up to
the wadi Eshkol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of
Yisra’ěl, so that they did not go into the land which יהוה had
given them.
Num 32:10 “Then the displeasure of
יהוה burned on that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
Num 32:11 Not one of the men who
came up from Mitsrayim, from twenty years old and above, is to see the land of
which I swore to Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Ya‛aqoḇ, because they did not follow Me completely, מלאו אחרי יהוה׃ לא
Num 32:12 except Kalěḇ
son of Yephunneh, the Qenizzite, and Yehoshua son of Nun, for they have
followed יהוה completely.’
Num 32:13 “So the displeasure of יהוה burned against Yisra’ěl, and He made them wander in the
wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the eyes
of יהוה was destroyed.
Num 32:14 “And see, you have risen
in your father’s place, an increase of men, sinners, to add still more the
burning displeasure of יהוה against Yisra’ěl. (clv - 14 “And
here you are, a brood of sinners, - ‘’criminals’’ (חטאים)standing
in the place of your fathers and making YHVH even more angry with Yisrael.) Remember Tisha b av.
Num 32:15 “For if you turn away
from following Him, He shall once again leave them in the wilderness, and you
shall destroy all these people.” (criminal)
Num 32:16 Then they came near to
him and said, “Let us build sheep-enclosures here for our livestock, and cities
for our little ones,
Num 32:17 but let us ourselves be
armed, hastening before the children of Yisra’ěl until we have brought them to
their place. And our little ones shall dwell in the walled cities because of
the inhabitants of the land.
Num 32:18 “We shall not return to
our homes until every one of the children of Yisra’ěl has received his
inheritance. (this never happened)
Num 32:19 “For we shall not
inherit with them on the other side of the Yarděn and beyond, because our
inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Yarděn.”
Num 32:20 And Mosheh said to them,
“If you make this promise: if you arm yourselves before יהוה for
battle,
Num 32:21 and all your armed ones
pass over the Yarděn before יהוה until He has driven out
His enemies from before Him,
Num 32:22 and the land has been
subdued before יהוה, then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless before יהוה and before Yisra’ěl. And this land shall be your possession
before יהוה.
Num 32:23 “But if you do not do
so, then see, you shall sin against יהוה, and know: your sin is
going to find you out. (and it did)
Num 32:24 “Build cities for your
little ones and enclosures for your sheep, and do what you have
promised.”
Num 32:25 And the children of Gaḏ
and the children of Re’uḇěn spoke to Mosheh, saying, “Your servants are going to do as my
master commands.
Num 32:26 “Our little ones, our
wives, our flocks, and all our livestock are going to be there in the cities of
Gil‛aḏ,
Num 32:27 but your servants are
passing over, every armed one of the army, before יהוה, to battle, as my master
says.”
Num 32:28 And Mosheh gave command
concerning them to El‛azar the priest, to Yehoshua son of Nun, and to the heads
of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Yisra’ěl.
Num 32:29 And Mosheh said to them,
“If the children of Gaḏ and the children of Re’uḇěn pass over the Yarděn with
you, every man armed for battle before יהוה, and the land has been
subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gil‛aḏ
as a possession.
Num 32:30 “But if they do not pass
over armed with you, they shall have possessions among you in the land of
Kena‛an.”
Num 32:31 Then the children of Gaḏ
and the children of Re’uḇěn answered, saying, “As יהוה has said to your
servants, so we do.
Num 32:32 “We ourselves are
passing over armed before יהוה into the land of Kena‛an, but the possession of our inheritance
remains with us beyond the Yarděn.”
Num 32:33 So Mosheh gave to the
children of Gaḏ, to the children of Re’uḇěn, and to half the tribe of
Menashsheh, son of Yosěph, the reign of Siḥon sovereign
of the Amorites and the reign of Oḡ sovereign of Bashan, the land
with its cities within the borders, the cities of the land round about.
Num 32:34 And the children of Gaḏ
built Diḇon and Ataroth and Aro‛ěr,
Num 32:35 and Atroth, Shophan and
Ya‛zěr and Yoḡbehah,
Num 32:36 and Běyth Nimrah and
Běyth Haran, walled cities, and enclosures for sheep.
Num 32:37 And the children of Re’uḇěn
built Ḥeshbon and El‛alěh and Qiryathayim,
Num 32:38 Neḇo
and Ba‛al Me‛on – the names being changed – and Shiḇmah. And they
gave other names to the cities which they built.
Num 32:39 And the sons of Maḵir
son of Menashsheh went to Gil‛aḏ and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
Num 32:40 So Mosheh gave Gil‛aḏ
to Maḵir, son of Menashsheh, and he dwelt in it.
Num 32:41 And Ya’ir son of
Menashsheh went and took its small towns, and called them Ḥawoth
Ya’ir.
Num 32:42 And Noḇaḥ went and took Qenath and its villages, and he called it Noḇaḥ, after his own name.
Quote: ‘’Israel disobeyed the Lord and broke the covenant. They made covenants with the Canaanites and did not break their altars. The consequence was the failure to complete the conquest of Canaan because the Lord would not continue to help them.’’
Jdg
2:1 And the Messenger of יהוה came up from Gilgal to Boḵim, and said, “I led you up from
Mitsrayim and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers, and I
said, ‘I do not break My covenant with you,
Jdg
2:2 and as for you, do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this
land – break down their slaughter-places.’ But you have not obeyed My voice.
What is this you have done?
Jdg
2:3 “Therefore I also said, ‘I am not driving them out before you, and
they shall be adversaries to you, and their mighty ones shall be a snare to
you.’ ”
Jdg 2:4 And it came to be, when the Messenger of יהוה spoke these words to all the children of Yisra’ěl, that the people lifted up their voice and wept. (Rom 7:13 – the Torah shows us the exceeding sinfulness of sin)
‘’They paid the price for their
choice.
Having remained on the East of the
Jordan, they were vulnerable to attack by marauding bands, as they soon found
out, and finally found themselves in the path of the cruel King of Assyria.
“In the days of Pekah king of Israel,
Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah,
Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried
them captive to Assyria.” (2Ki 15:29)
In 740 B.C. Tiglath-Pileser III, King of
the Great Assyrian Empire, whose capital was a complex of four cities, the
composite later named Nineveh, carried away the Reubenites, the Gadites, and
half of Manasseh, placing them as captive slaves in cities of Assyria.’’
Are we much better than our forefathers?
Eze 9:4 and יהוה said to him, “Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Yerushalayim, and you shall put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
How then does this Torah portion teach us how to protect YHVH’s blessing for Israel and for the nations?
When
Brothers Dwell in Unity
Psa
133:1 See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together
in unity –
Psa
133:2 Like the precious oil on the head, Running down on the beard, The
beard of Aharon, Running down on the collar of his robes – (restoration of
the Aaronic priesthood)
Psa 133:3 Like the dew of Ḥermon, That comes down on the mountains of Tsiyon. For there יהוה commanded the blessing, Life forever!
Blessed are you
YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have given us your Torah of truth
and have planted everlasting life within our midst. Blessed are you, YHVH giver
of the Torah – Amein.