Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord’s servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul.
Joshua 22:5
For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord’s altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.
Joshua 22:28
Category: Daily Reading
The Lord Keeps Every Promise He Makes
The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.
Joshua 21:45
1)Mat 7:7 Mat 7:7 Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:
Mat 7:8 Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
Jos 21:44 And the Lord gave them peace on every side, as he had said to their fathers: all those who were against them gave way before them, for the Lord gave them all up into their hands.
Jos 21:45 The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.
| ↑1 | Mat 7:7 Mat 7:7 Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you: Mat 7:8 Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open. |
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The Lord provides safe places
Through Moses, I told you to choose some cities to be cities of safety.
Joshua 20:2
1)Heb 6:18 These two things cannot change: God cannot lie when he says something, and he cannot lie when he makes an oath. So these two things are a great help to us who have come to God for safety. They encourage us to hold on to the hope that is ours.
Heb 6:19 This hope is like an anchor for us. It is strong and sure and keeps us safe. It goes behind the curtain.
| ↑1 | Heb 6:18 These two things cannot change: God cannot lie when he says something, and he cannot lie when he makes an oath. So these two things are a great help to us who have come to God for safety. They encourage us to hold on to the hope that is ours. Heb 6:19 This hope is like an anchor for us. It is strong and sure and keeps us safe. It goes behind the curtain. |
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Service
So the distribution of the land and its limits was complete; and the children of Israel gave Joshua, the son of Nun, a heritage among them;
Joshua 19:49
Why are you so slow to take what the Lord has given you?
And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them.
Joshua 18:1
Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?
Joshua 18:3
Serve God, not your own worldly desires.
And when the children of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, in place of driving them out.
Joshua 17:13Then the children of Joseph said to Joshua, Why have you given me only one part and one stretch of land for my heritage? For through the blessing given to me by the Lord up to now, I am a great people.
Joshua 17:14
1)Rom 12:2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
| ↑1 | Rom 12:2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God. |
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Compromises with the enemy lead to idolatry
And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.
Joshua 16:10
1)Num 33:52 See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:
Num 33:53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.
Num 33:54 And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers’ tribes.
Num 33:55 But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.
Continue reading Compromises with the enemy lead to idolatry
| ↑1 | Num 33:52 See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places: Num 33:53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage. Num 33:54 And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers’ tribes. Num 33:55 But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living. |
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