Category: joshua
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Outside and Inside
23For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. 24He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of…
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Never Been This Way
“When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it. 4Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before.–Joshua 3
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Life Illustrates Values
22Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.” 23Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD will rule over you.” 24And Gideon said to them,…
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Choose
14“Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. 15And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond…
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We Trust the Author
14“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.–Joshua 23 I…
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Witness
34The people of Reuben and the people of Gad called the altar Witness, “For,” they said, “it is a witness between us that the LORD is God.”–Joshua 22 Reuben, Gad, and half of Manasseh had land on the other side of the Jordan. After being released by Joshua to go home, they built an altar. Word got…
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A Moment with Levi
41The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasturelands.–Joshua 21 A few things that stood out to me this chapter. NAMES. The Levites had three clans: Kohath, Merari, Gershon. The priests had to be from the line of Moses’ brother…
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An Interesting Death
6And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.’”–Joshua 20 The difference between murder and manslaughter…
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Extra Portion
49When they had finished distributing the several territories of the land as inheritances, the people of Israel gave an inheritance among them to Joshua the son of Nun. 50By command of the LORD they gave him the city that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he rebuilt the city and settled in it.–Joshua 19…
Joel M Bradshaw 