OVERVIEW (6) – NUMBERS: “The Book of Wanderings”

OVERVIEW OF THE BIBLE
“Numbers: “The Book Of Wanderings”
Chapters 1-36 (NKJV)

1) FIRST GENERATION (ch. 1-14)
      A) First Census (ch. 1-2) (1:1-4)
      B) Tabernacle Service (ch. 3-4) (3:6-7)
      C) Purity (ch. 5-6)
      D) Tabernacle (ch. 7-8)
              1) Offering for the Tabernacle (ch. 7)
              2) Levites are dedicated (ch. 8)
      E) Passover (ch. 9)
      F) Departure (ch. 10)
      G) Grumbling (ch. 11-12)
             1) People (11:1)
             2) 70 elders
             3) Miriam and Aaron (12:1-2)
      H) Spies (ch. 13-14)
             1) Mission (13:1-3 (Deut. 1:19-23)
             2) Refusal (13:25,28,30)
             3) Reprieve (14:26-30)
2) TRANSITION (ch. 15-20)
      A) Insurrection (16:1-3,31-33)
      B) Aaron’s rod (17:1-5)
      C) Moses’s anger (20:1-2,10-11)
      D) Moses’s punishment (20:12)
3) SECOND GENERATION (ch. 21-36)
      A) Bronze Serpent (21:4-9)
      B) Balaam (ch. 22-25)
             1) Balak is afraid (22:1-4)
             2) Balaam is approached (22:5-6)
             3) Balaam’s prophecies and greediness (ch. 22-24)
             4) Balaam’s advice (Num. 31:16 & Rev. 2:14)(Num. 25:1-3)

“These are the commandments and the judgments which the Lord commanded the children of Israel by the hand of Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.”
Numbers 36:13