Caleb the son of Jephunneh was one of the twelve Israelite spies that Moses had sent into Canaan to investigate the land and gather intelligence about their potential enemies. When the spies returned, only two of the twelve came back with a...
As Joshua divides the land amongst the tribes of Israel, we read that he gave no allotment to the tribe of Levi - for the Lord, the God of Israel, had promised that He Himself would be their allotment. In the original Hebrew this reads, “Yahweh Elohim-of Ishral” is their allotment (or portion). This was not a "gag gift" or a "booby...
Now that Israel controlled all the territory that was to become its homeland, the writer (believed to be Joshua) summarizes the entire conquest. Once Israel had won control of the land as a whole, Israel’s leaders began the task of dividing it among the tribes. Throughout the country, however, there were many areas that the Canaanites still...
Ecclesiastes 3:8 tells us there is "time to love and a time to hate, a time for war, and a time for peace.” Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. “And the land had rest from war." At long last, the time...
Here
in Joshua 10, an astounding astronomical miracle really took place, by which
the motion of the heavenly bodies was, for several hours, suspended by
God’s omnipotent power. This particular
miracle – like many in the Bible – cannot be explained by human reasoning or
science. Nor can it be explained away
by those who resist God’s truth.
We cannot explain the physics or the mechanics by which God performed this...
The men of Israel looked them over and accepted the evidence. But they didn’t ask God about it.
They listened to their story of far-away travels. But
they didn’t ask God about it.
They believed their words of praise for God. But they didn’t ask God about it.
They made peace with them and formalized it with a
covenant. But they didn’t ask God about it.
It took only three days before Joshua and these men...
Joshua, the great man of faith, was suddenly fearful and dismayed. The dictionary defines “dismay” as “consternation and distress, typically that caused by something unexpected; a feeling of fear, disappointment, shock, or...
