Joshua 24:14-15 (New International Version 2011) 14 “Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. 15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Joshua'
Gods from the Distant Past
December 24th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Joshua · Old Testament
Casting Lots for Land
April 16th, 2011 · No Comments
Joshua 18:3-7 (New International Version 2011) 3 So Joshua said to the Israelites: “How long will you wait before you begin to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you? 4 Appoint three men from each tribe. I will send them out to make a survey of […]
Tags: Joshua · Old Testament
Melting in Fear
April 24th, 2010 · No Comments
Joshua 2:24 (New International Version) They said to Joshua, “The LORD has surely given the whole land into our hands; all the people are melting in fear because of us.” Joshua had sent three spies into Jericho to learn about the city and its defenses. This is the end of the report that the three […]
Tags: Joshua · Old Testament
Assumptions and Clarifications
April 17th, 2010 · No Comments
Joshua 22:9-12 (New International Version) 9 So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the LORD through Moses. 10 When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the […]
Tags: Joshua · Old Testament
Choose
April 3rd, 2010 · No Comments
Joshua 24:14-15 (New International Version) 14 “Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. 15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the […]
Tags: Joshua · Old Testament
The Mouth
March 28th, 2010 · No Comments
Joshua 1:8 (New International Version) Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. In this verse, God is instructing Joshua before Joshua leads the people into […]
Tags: Joshua · Old Testament
I Coveted
April 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Joshua 7:20-21 (New International Version)20 Achan replied, “It is true! I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I have done: 21 When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and […]
Tags: covet · Joshua · Old Testament