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Re: wow- very cool

Posted By: Ronald L. Hughes
Date: Sunday, 5 March 2006, at 10:05 p.m.

In Response To: wow- very cool (tim)

"Reuben, Tribe of; at the Exodus numbered 46,500 male adults, from twenty years old and upwards (Num. 1:20, 21), and at the close of the wilderness wanderings they numbered only 43,730 (26:7). This tribe united with that of Gad in asking permission to settle in the "land of Gilead," "on the other side of Jordan" (32:1-5). The lot
assigned to Reuben was the smallest of the lots given to the
trans-Jordanic tribes. It extended from the Arnon, in the south
along the coast of the Dead Sea to its northern end, where the
Jordan flows into it (Josh. 13:15-21, 23). It thus embraced the
original kingdom of Sihon. Reuben is "to the eastern tribes what
Simeon is to the western. 'Unstable as water,' he vanishes away
into a mere Arabian tribe. 'His men are few;' it is all he can
do 'to live and not die.' We hear of nothing beyond the
multiplication of their cattle in the land of Gilead,..."

If the Biblical description is not that of modern Israel/Lebanon, then where else could it be? Do we really think that cattle were ever a large part of the domesticated animals of Israel? It would only be possible if conditions were much wetter and grass more plentifull.

Did you know that Neopolis was referred to as Egypt at one time?

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