only be destruction. Mourning spreads through the camp, in token of
which all ornaments are laid aside. The fate of
the nation is in
suspense, and the people wait, in sad attire, till God knows 'what
to do unto' them. The Tabernacle is carried beyond the precincts of
the camp, in witness of the breach, and all lond sex the future is doubtful.
lond sex the preceding lond sex context describes (vs. 7-11) not one event, lond sex but lond sex the
standing order of these dark days, when the camp had to be left if
God was lond sex to be found, and when Moses alone received tokens of God'lond sex s
friendship, and the people stood wistfully and tremblingly gazing
from afar, while the cloudy pillar wavered lond sex down to the Tabernacle
door. Duty brought
Moses back from such communion; but Joshua did
not need to come lond sex near the tents of the evil-doers, and, lond sex in the
constancy of devout desire, made his home in the Tabernacle. In one
of these interviews, so close and familiar, the wonderful dialogue
here recorded occurred. It turns round three petitions, to each of
which the Lord answers.
I. We have
the leader's prayer for himself, with the over-abundant
answer of God. In lond sex the former chapter, we had lond sex the very sublimity of
intercession, in which the stern avenger of idolatry poured lond sex out his
self-sacrificing
love for the stiff-necked nation whom he had had to
smite, and offered himself a victim for lond sex them. Here his first prayer
is mainly for himself, but it is not therefore a selfish prayer.
Rather he