Toby 6/24/22 Sh'lach L'cha
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“Who is this King of glory?” Adonai-Tzva’ot—He is the King of glory!
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Give ear, O God, to my prayer and do not ignore my plea for help.
Listen to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint and moan—
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the pressure of the wicked. For they thrust trouble on me, and in anger bear a grudge against me.
My heart shudders within me and the terrors of death sweep over me.
Fear and trembling come upon me and horror has overwhelmed me.
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Then Adonai said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their slave masters, for I know their pains.
So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, to bring them up out of that land into a good and large land, a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
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They gave their account to him and said, “We went into the land where you sent us. Indeed it is flowing with milk and honey—this is some of its fruit.
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They spread among Bnei-Yisrael a bad report about the land they had explored, saying, “The land through which we passed to explore devours its residents. All the people we saw there are men of great size!
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All through that night, the entire community raised up their voices. The people wept.
All Bnei-Yisrael grumbled against Moses and Aaron and the whole community said, “If only we had died in Egypt! If only we had died in this wilderness!
Why is Adonai bringing us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be like plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”
They said to each other, “Let’s choose a leader and let’s go back to Egypt!”
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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the entire assembly of the community of Bnei-Yisrael.
Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes.
They said to the whole assembly of Bnei-Yisrael, “The land through which we passed is an exceptionally good land!
If Adonai is pleased with us, He will lead us into that land and will give it to us—a land flowing with milk and honey.
Only don’t rebel against Adonai, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land. They will be food for us. The protection over them is gone. Adonai is with us! Do not fear them.”
But the whole assembly talked about violently stoning them. Then the glory of Adonai appeared at the Tent of Meeting to all Bnei-Yisrael.
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none of the people who saw My glory and My miraculous signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet tested Me these ten times and did not obey My Voice—
not one of them will see the land I promised to their forefathers. None of those who treated Me with contempt will see it!
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They took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us. They also brought back word to us and said, ‘Good is the land that Adonai our God is giving to us.’
“Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of Adonai your God.
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So you will make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land, and you must give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps He will lighten His hand off of you, your gods and your land.
Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He afflicted them, didn’t they send them away so they left?
Now therefore get a new cart ready, two milk cows on which there has never been a yoke, hitch the cows to the cart, and return their calves home, away from them.
Then take the ark of Adonai and place it on the cart; also put the golden objects that you return to Him as a guilt offering in a box by its side. Then send it off so it may go.
Then watch—if it goes up by the way of its own territory to Beth-shemesh, then it was He who inflicted on us this great harm. But if not, then we will know that it was not His hand that struck us; it just happened to us by chance.”
So the people did so—they took two milk cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
Then they placed the ark of Adonai on the cart together with the box, the golden mice, and the models of their tumors.
So the cows took the way straight toward Beth-shemesh—they kept along the same highway, lowing as they went, and turned aside neither to the right nor to the left. The lords of the Philistines followed them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
Now the people of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley. When they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.
The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there, where there was a large stone. Then they chopped the wood of the cart and offered up the cows as a burnt offering to Adonai.
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Then the angel of Adonai came and sat under the terebinth that was at Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress—in order to hide it from the Midianites.
Then the angel of Adonai appeared to him and said to him, “Adonai is with you, O mighty man of valor.”
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Now it happened after this that the Moabites and the Ammonites together with other Ammonites came to make war against Jehoshaphat.
Some came and reported to Jehoshaphat saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Aram, and are already in Hazazon-Tamar” (that is En-Gedi).
Jehoshaphat was afraid so he resolved to seek Adonai, and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Judah assembled to seek help from Adonai; indeed, they came from all the cities of Judah to seek Adonai.
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Our God, will You not execute judgment on them? For we have no power to face this great multitude that is attacking us. We do not know what to do—but our eyes are on You.”
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“If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before you.
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But you are not of the world, since I have chosen you out of the world; therefore the world hates you.
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These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have shalom. In the world you will have trouble, but take heart! I have overcome the world!”
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“To whom then will you liken Me? Or who is My equal?” says the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes on high, and see! Who created these? The One who brings out their host by number, the One who calls them all by name. Because of His great strength and vast power, not one is missing.
Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from Adonai, and the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Adonai is the eternal God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow tired or weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
He gives strength to the weary, and to one without vigor He adds might.
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall,
but they who wait for Adonai will renew their strength. They will soar up with wings as eagles. They will run, and not grow weary. They will walk, and not be faint.
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