get further understanding about God:
promises:
- Rescue our sons and daughters from the wicked people.
attitudes:
- To think before speaking.
- To think before the action.
sins:
- O Lord, please forgive me that I should have killed the heathen in my mind.
good examples:
- Not to worship idols.
- Not to offer our sons and daughters as sacrifices to the idols.
- Not to kill innocent children.
listen to God's voice and commands:
- My child, your good actions will make me happy. Your faithful actions will make me happy. Please do all the things that will make me happy for me.
At the springs of Meribah the people made the Lord angry, and Moses was in trouble on their account.
They made him so bitter that he spoke without stopping to think.
They did not kill the heathen, as the Lord had commanded them to do, but they intermarried with them and adopted their pagan ways.
God's people worshiped idols, and this caused their destruction.
They offered their own sons and daughters as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.
They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.
They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.