We are nearing the end of the wilderness wanderings, and these three chapters give us account of the near end of this journey. Chapter 31 is the record of the destruction and division of plunder of the Midianites, who lived east of the Jordan, east of the land of Israel. This leads to chapter 32, the tribes who decide to settle in this land and not in the land of Canaan – what come to be known as the "trans-Jordan" tribes. They live just east of the Jordan River. Chapter 33 is a recounting of what has happened thus far.
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I really liked how it went over again all that had happened to the Israelites throughout the years in chapter 33. And what happened to Deuteronomy???
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