1: Such pride. Wanting to share in another's glory (really this is God's glory) will result in bad relationships, and ultimately, ruin for yourself if you continue in that pattern. You will have no friends because none will trust you or even desire to be around your prideful spirit.
And apparently, this is true for Ephraim. They will never again play any important role in Israel history after the civil war that erupted from their rash words.
4: Why are the Gileadites fugitives of Ephraim?
Aparently, Gileadites were reckoned both by the western Manassites and Ephraimites as outcasts- the scum and refuse of their common stock. They ran away from their countrymen and dwelled in a land by themselves.
1-7: What is the take away from this passage?
This Ephraim people once mighty, were brought low. Their arrogance and pride was stripped away from them in one fail swoop. They got away with their sins for many years, but it caught up with them, just as it will with us, should we choose to live in our sin and refuse to repent. Oh Lord, convict me of my unseen sins.
9: The only notable thing said about Izban was about his sin...the beginning of another downward spiral for Israel.
This Ephraim people once mighty, were brought low. Their arrogance and pride was stripped away from them in one fail swoop. They got away with their sins for many years, but it caught up with them, just as it will with us, should we choose to live in our sin and refuse to repent. Oh Lord, convict me of my unseen sins.
9: The only notable thing said about Izban was about his sin...the beginning of another downward spiral for Israel.
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