Tag: Joshua
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Joshua and Caleb
When twelve men went into the land of Canaan to spy it out ten of them feared and said the people were too strong for Israel. Joshua and Caleb disagreed because they trusted the Lord. Thus they were the only two alive when the people entered the promised land forty years later. While Joshua became…
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27 September 2010
Joshua 23 – 24I wonder if some people thought of Joshua only as a military leader to be honored for his past accomplishments and not as a spiritual leader to follow his present words. When Joshua says that the Lord brought their fathers out of Egypt he is speaking literally of the fathers of most…
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5 September 2010
Joshua 22Amazing how deadly a misunderstanding could have been. Nine and a half tribes were ready to make war on two and a half tribes because they believed that an alter built by those two and a half tribes was blasphemous in intent. Thankfully they talked before fighting and bloodshed was averted.
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4 September 2010
Joshua 21The sons of Aaron received for inheritance more than one quarter of the cities that were given the all the Levites.
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3 September 2010
Joshua 20Out of twelve tribes six cities of refuge were established. I personally find it interesting that Ephraim and Manasseh each had one of those cities, so two refuge cities among the descendants of Joseph and that Judah also contained a refuge city. I also find it interesting that the refuge cities of Judah and…
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2 September 2010
Joshua 18 – 19Joshua sent men to see and describe the land before assigning it to the remaining tribes. Those men walked the land and kept a record of their findings for Joshua.
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1 September 2010
Joshua 16 – 17When the people of Ephriam and Manasseh said that their inheritance was too small Joshua told them that they could add the hill country to their inheritance by driving the Canaanites from the hills.
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31 August 2010
Joshua 15If I knew anything of the majority of the places mentioned here this would make a lot more sense. This record of the specific places of inheritance seems very technical and without any modern application. I wonder if the inheritances described here were only the already conquered areas or if they extended over the…
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30 August 2010
Joshua 13 – 14The Lord tells Joshua that there is much land remaining to be conquered and possessed but that as he was growing old he should divide the land they have taken into inheritances for the remaining tribes.
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29 August 2010
Joshua 12Israel defeated 31 kingdoms within the area of modern Israel. That Says something about what constituted a kingdom in those days. Generally it was little more than one established city.