Tag: Joshua

When the Lord distinguishes between families and households it makes me think. Families are those bonded by their relationships and households are the beginnings of families – they are the individual units of a family who live together under a shared roof. As we begin to split up and no longer love under a shared…

I had forgotten that children is Israel resumed the p of circumcision as soon as they entered the promised land after having ceased the practice during their years in the wilderness. I actually wonder if that beard any similarity out the years when the church leaned into the term “Mormon” before more recently making the…

I never realized before that Joshua’s “choose you this day whom ye will serve, but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord,” came at the end of his life. I had always thought it was something he says soon after they crossed Jordan, early in his days of leadership.

I wonder if any of the people of Israel considered the fact that Shechem, the site of a great mass crime on the part of some sons of Israel, were signed as a refugee city for those who murdered unintentionally. At least to me I see some historic irony if not some intentional reminder of…

It think it would be valuable to go through the scriptures and make a list of chapters that have no doctrinal value (like the lists of inheritances I have been reading). This is especially true for probs if the record that go on for several chapters with material that is simply historical without any content…

The lists of cities and borders here don’t make any sense to me. Very few of them still exist so getting the picture is difficult, especially with no knowledge of the area.

Knowing that the children of Israel displaced 31 kings in the land tells us that either they were a very large people or else they had much more land than they immediately needed when they moved in.

The Lord paved the way for Joshua and Israel to take the land of Canaan – even when different nations banded together against them. Only those who stealthily made alliance with them were spared.

I never realized the signs of a fresh start among the children of Israel as they entered the land of Canaan. They ate the old corn of the land and stopped receiving manna and they also circumcised all the men who had been born since they left Egypt – a practice that had not been…

In a time of their faithfulness the people of Israel responded to the leader who God had placed before then with the following statement: “All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.” May I have the same attitude toward the Lord’s chosen servants in my day.