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Israelites and then
The introduction to Deuteronomy recalled how Yahweh had given the land to the Israelites but then withdrew the gift when Israel showed fear and only Joshua and Caleb had trusted in God.
This is the theme played out in Judges: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh and he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies ; the people then repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a judge ; the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression, but after a while they fall into unfaithfulness again and the cycle is repeated.
Pharaoh then agrees to let the Israelites go.
The Canaanite city-state system broke down at the end of the Late Bronze period, and Canaanite culture was then gradually absorbed into that of the Philistines, Phoenicians and Israelites.
After Moses had told Jethro how the Israelites had escaped Egypt, Jethro went to offer sacrifices to the Lord, and then ate bread with the elders.
Moses turned down the opportunity to have the Israelites completely destroyed and a great nation made from his own offspring, and instead he told the people that they would wander the wilderness for forty years until all those twenty years or older who had refused to enter Canaan had died, and that their children would then enter and possess Canaan.
Moses was then told that because Phinehas had averted the wrath of God from the Israelites, Phinehas and his descendents were given the pledge of an everlasting priesthood.
When the Israelites entered the land, Zelophehad's daughters appeared before Eleazer the priest, Joshua ( who by then had assumed leadership from Moses ), and the chieftains, reminding them that God had commanded Moses to grant them a portion among their kinsmen, and Zelophehad's daughters received a portion in the holdings of Manasseh on the west side of the Jordan River.
Leaving Rephidim, the Israelites advanced into the Sinai Wilderness ( Exodus 19: 1-2 ; Numbers 33: 14-15 ), possibly marching through the two passes of the Wadi Solaf and the Wadi esh-Sheikh, which converge at the entrance to the er-Rahah plain ( which would then be identified with the " Sinai Wilderness "), which is two miles ( 3 km ) long and about half a mile broad.
From Sukkoth the Israelites travel to Etham " on the edge of the desert ," then turn back to Pi-hahiroth, located between Migdol and the sea and directly opposite Baal Zephon.
Numbers describes it as having the appearance of bdellium, adding that the Israelites ground it and pounded it into cakes, which were then baked, resulting in something that tasted like cakes baked with oil.
Exodus states that the Israelites consumed the manna for 40 years, starting from the fifteenth day of the second month ( Iyar 15 ), but that it then ceased to appear once they had reached a settled land, and once they had reached the borders of Canaan ( inhabited by the Canaanites ).
Mastema is also said to have been chained while the Israelites left Egypt but then let go to encourage the Egyptians to chase after the Israelites and so come to their doom in the Red Sea.
These rabbinical sources also argued that as part of the price of Abraham's purchase of the Cave of Machpelah, which lay in the territory of the Jebusites, the Jebusites made Abraham grant them a covenant that his descendants would not take control of Jebus against the will of the Jebusites, and then the Jebusites engraved the covenant into bronze ; the sources state that the presence of the bronze statues are why the Israelites were not able to conquer the city during Joshua's campaign.
Samson at first refuses to be present at the worship of Dagon, but then thinks of a plan and agrees to go to the festival, though he warns the Israelites to stay away from it.
According to the biblical narrative, Joshua then orders the Israelites who had been born during the exodus to be circumcised.
Furthermore, the Israelites who did not like what had happened to Korah, Dathan, and Abiram ( and their families ) objected to Moses, and God then commanded Moses to depart from the multitude.
The then ordered Moses to vex the Midianites and smite them, for plotting against the Israelites in the matters of Peor and Cozbi.
Ish-bosheth was chosen as the second king over the Kingdom of Israel, which then consisted of all the twelve tribes of the Israelites, after the death of his father and three brothers at the Battle of Mount Gilboa.
In the Book of Joshua, after the Battle of Ai, Joshua built an altar of unhewn stones there, the Israelites then made peace offerings on it, the law of Moses was written onto the stones, and the Israelites split into the two groups specified in Deuteronomy and pronounced blessings and curses as instructed there.
To the Elohist, the threat of the passover is enough to cause the Egyptians to chase the Israelites out, whereas the Jahwist presents the Egyptians as reluctantly giving in, and then changing their mind, and chasing after them to bring them back.
J begins with chapters 10-14, the departure from Sinai, the story of the spies who are afraid of the giants in Canaan, and the refusal of the Israelites to enter the Promised Land-which then brings on the wrath of God, who condemns them to wander in the wilderness for the next forty years.

Israelites and set
The Ark was again set up by Joshua at Shiloh, but when the Israelites fought against Benjamin at Gibeah, they had the Ark with them and consulted it after their defeat.
Miriam dies at Kadesh Barnea and the Israelites set out for Moab, on Canaan's western border.
In this third covenant, unlike the first two, God hands down an elaborate set of laws ( scattered through Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers ), which the Israelites are to observe ; they are also to remain faithful to Yahweh, the god of Israel, meaning, among other things, that they must put their trust in his help.
The cyclic pattern set out in the prologue is readily apparent at the beginning, but as the stories progress it begins to disintegrate, mirroring the disintegration of the world of the Israelites.
The Israelites, enumerated at 603, 550 able-bodied adult males ( not counting Levites ) and their families, with their flocks and herds, set out for the mountain of God.
Circumcision was performed upon the male children of Israelites to signify their external membership in God's people, not as a guarantee of true faith ; the Old Testament records many Israelites who turned from God and were punished, showing that their hearts were not truly set on serving God.
The Israelites set out from Mount Hor, where Aaron was buried, to go to the Red Sea.
Since the Hebrew Bible makes a point of marking the Canaanites as peoples set apart from the Israelites, the extent of the distinction between the culture of the Canaanites and the Israelites is a matter of debate.
Adherents may hold a diverse set of beliefs and claims that are ancillary to the core genealogical theory, but there are central tenets that all British Israelites follow, including Two House Theology, which is at the core of British Israelism.
The third year was called " the year of tithing " in which the Israelites set aside 10 % of the increase of the land, they were to give this tithe to the Levites, strangers, orphans, and widows.
Tzipporah accompanies Moses back to Egypt and leaves with him when he is finally able to set the Israelites free.
Out of the booty that belonged to Israelites, one of every fifty was set apart to the Levites who cared for the Tabernacle.
These legends also feature prominently in British Israelism, a set of beliefs that consider the British monarchy as the legitimate heir to the ancient Israelites.
Black Judaism is ... a form of institutionalized ( congregational ) religious expression in which black persons identify themselves as Jews, Israelites, or Hebrews ... in a manner that seems unacceptable to the " whites " of the world's Jewish community, primarily because Jews take issue with the various justifications set forth by Black Jews in establishing this identity.

Israelites and out
During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara in Ireland looking for the Ark of the Covenant – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned successfully to have them stopped before they destroyed the hill.
Having described how the Israelites and Joshua have carried out the first of their God's commands, the story now turns to the second, to " put the people in possession of the land.
* Joshua led the Israelites out of the wilderness into the Promised Land, crossing the Jordan River as if on dry ground ( 3: 16 ), just as Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt through the Red Sea, which they crossed as if on dry land ( Ex.
They arrive at the borders of Canaan and send spies into the land, but on hearing the spies ' report the Israelites refuse to take possession of Canaan and God condemns them to death in the wilderness until a new generation can grow up and carry out the task.
As such it draws to a conclusion the themes introduced in Genesis and played out in Exodus and Leviticus: God has promised the Israelites that they shall become a great ( i. e. numerous ) nation, that they will have a special relationship with Yahweh their god, and that they shall take possession of the land of Canaan.
Miriam and Aaron insult Moses at Hazeroth, which angers God ; Miriam is punished with leprosy and is shut out of camp for seven days, at the end of which the Israelites proceed to the desert of Paran.
Scholars agree that the Deuteronomists ' hand can be seen in Judges through the book's cyclical nature: the Israelites fall into idolatry, God punishes them for their sins with oppression by foreign peoples, the Israelites cry out to God for help, and God sends a judge to deliver them from the foreign oppression.
After the Ten Plagues, Moses led the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
Similar passages include, for example, Exodus 17: 14, " And YHWH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;" Exodus 24: 4, " And Moses wrote all the words of YHWH, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel ;" Exodus 34: 27, " And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel ;" and " These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.
Twice a day for 40 days, Goliath, the champion of the Philistines, comes out between the lines and challenges the Israelites to send out a champion of their own to decide the outcome in single combat, but Saul and all the Israelites are afraid.
The God of Israel reveals his name to Moses, a Hebrew of the line of Levi ; Moses leads the Israelites out of bondage and into the desert, where God gives them their laws and the Israelites agree to become his people.
In the Hebrew Bible, ( Judges 1: 31 ), Akko is one of the places from which the Israelites did not drive out the Canaanites.

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