The whole assembly of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. (Joshua 18:1)After forty years of travel, plus however long it took to accomplish the three military campaigns in Canaan, the Tent of Meeting came to rest in Shiloh. There it would remain until the early days of Samuel (I'm thinking that makes it around 150 years), but we'll get to that story in a couple weeks. In the mean time, Shiloh would serve as the spiritual capital of Israel during the years of the judges.
If you want to see what's coming, read Psalm 78:56-64.
I have always wondered about Moses's children. It does not seem they get much mention, espcially in the later years of Moses's life. Did they go back to the land of his wife and her father, Jethro? You would think his son(s) would have been following in his footsteps, being groomed for leadership, but instead it is Joshua. Did Moses's descendents get any portion of the promised land? It talks about Aaron's descendents and their apportionment of land, and Aaron and Moses were brothers, but the Levites were Aaron's descendents and not Moses's. Is there something I missed? Do you know anything from your readings about any of Moses's descendents?
ReplyDeleteActually the Levites were the descendants of Levi, so Aaron and Moses were both Levites. The Levites served by carrying the tabernacle and its furnishings from place to place, setting it up and tearing it down when necessary. The priests were descendants of Aaron, so all priests were Levites, although not all Levites were priests.
ReplyDeleteIn Judges 17-18 we read about one of Moses' descendants, who served as priest to the tribe of Dan. 1 Chronicles 26 tells us of a later descendant who was in charge of the treasuries (probably beginning when Solomon was co-regent with his father David - their reigns overlapped).
1 Chronicles 26 also shows that Eliezer's descendants were also charged with the treasuries under King David. Beyond that, there are a lot of Eliezers in the Bible, and I don't know if they are one and the same, or not.
Merry has an interesting point, and it makes me glad they didn't fall into the error of equating the line of Moses with a sort of royalty/minor gods/chieftains thing. - Amy
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