You will experience terrible failure and crushing conflict on the road that leads to where I'm taking you, but it is the right road even when it feels like it's killing you. - Dr. Larry Crabb
Exodus covered a year; Leviticus only a month - but the Book of Numbers encompasses more than 38 years of the Israelites wilderness journey. The Hebrew title of this book gives us an idea of the theme of Numbers. In Hebrew this book is titled In the Wilderness instead of Numbers.
Christians flinch when they are reminded of the military census of the tribes, a tedious read, yet much needed part of preparing the Israelites for the promised land battles that lay ahead.
Our very own Katie Chaney took the time to put this census down on paper in an understandable way. You can thank her for the graphic above! (I'm just sorry I can't enlarge it for you.)
