Numbers Explained

Name: Numbers Explained
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ISBN: 9781972885055

Understanding the Book and Its Message for Today

Samuel Whitaker

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Ascent Press Co.
07 April 2026

Bibles; Old Testaments

Series: Bible for Modern Life

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Numbers is the book of the wilderness - not the wilderness as romantic metaphor for spiritual searching, but the wilderness as consequence. Israel had been liberated from Egypt, ratified the covenant at Sinai, and constructed the tabernacle. They had everything they needed to enter the land they had been promised. And then, standing at its border, they refused to go in.

The result was forty years of wandering. Numbers is the honest record of that failure: the complaints, the rebellions, the longing for Egypt, the mutinies against Moses. It is also the record of a divine faithfulness that the failure did not terminate - the manna that arrived every morning, the cloud that kept moving, and the promise that was still standing when a new generation rose to receive what their parents had refused.

Numbers Explained walks readers through the historical setting, narrative structure, and major themes of the book - from the wilderness terrain and the two census counts to the Balaam oracles and the daughters of Zelophehad.

Part of The Bible for Modern Life Series.

By: Samuel Whitaker
Imprint: Ascent Press Co.
Volume: 10
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 172g
ISBN: 9781972885055
ISBN 10: 1972885057
Series: Bible for Modern Life
Pages: 122
Publication Date: 07 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active