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THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD GIVEN HERITAGE
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5
Joshua 17

Numbers 27:1-11

 

“…shalt surely give them
a possession of an inheritance

among their father’s brethren…”

 

THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD GIVEN HERITAGE
 
Joshua ensured that the promise that God had made through Moses to the daughters of Zelophehad was fulfilled. They were one of the families of the house of Joseph. Zelophehad had five daughters, without any sons. This was not the first time that these women were featured in connection with the settlement in Canaan.
 
Their request to Moses concerning the inheritance of their father is told in Numbers 27:1-11. Since families were named after the sons, the daughters were counted in the family that they were married into. The daughters of Zelophehad were concerned about the heritage of their father because he had no son. When they expressed this concern to Moses, there was no immediate answer. However, Moses promised them that he would ask God about it. God granted their request saying that they were to be married within the tribe of their father and the inheritance of their father would not go to another tribe. That heritage would also retain the name of their father.
 
Moses then conveyed God’s message to them that He had consented to their request. Now, under Joshua’s leadership, the time of the actual granting of the heritage had come. The daughters of Zelophehad approached Joshua and Eleazar, and asked for their heritage as Moses had promised them. Joshua 17:3-4 “But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore, according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.” The portion of inheritance was given to them and the matter was thus settled.
 
THOUGHT: Sons and daughters are gifts from God to families. It is the parents' God-given duty to bring them up in the fear and admonition of God.

PRAYER: Father, we praise Thee for Thy gifts of sons and daughters.

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