Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and now the Book of Josue in the Old Testament!
This Book is so called, because it was written in large part by Josue and is a history of the Jews under his rule. It records the Jewish conquest of the Promised Land, its final distribution, and the last address and death of Josue.
Time is a flying!
We are almost to the Promised Land yet in between is the Jordan River!
Like God did for Moses and the children of Israel with the parting of the Red Sea so too did he perform a mind boggling miracle for Josue and the children of Israel so that they could cross the Jordan River at high flow during harvest time.
What mean these stones? You shall teach them and say: Israel passed over this Jordan through the dry channel. The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your sight, until you passed over, as he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried up till be passed through, that all the people of the earth may learn the most mighty hand of the Lord, that you also may fear the Lord your God for ever.
And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, So I am with thee also…
By this you shall know that the Lord the living God is in the midst of you…Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth shall go before you into the Jordan. Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe…
The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain… those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of wilderness (which is now called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed…
And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over through the channel that was dried up.
One out of every tribe…to the midst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone…
And Josue put other twelve stones in the midst of the channel of the Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the Ark of the Covenant: and they are there until this present day.
And the people made haste and passed over…
And forty thousand fighting men by their troops, and bands, marched through the plains and fields of the city of Jericho…
In that day the Lord magnified Josue in the sight of all Israel, that they should fear him, as they had feared Moses, while he lived.
The waters returned into the channel, and ran as they were wont before…
What a glorious way to enter the Promised Land!
Let us magnify Jesus in our hearts so that we may fully embrace love and life!
I have witnessed the “Twelve Apostles,” a group of small mountain peaks that run along the coast of Capetown in South Africa.
I have yet to see the “Twelve Stones” where the Ark of the Covenant led us through the Jordan River…
Day 71: Reading The Bible with a TROML Perspective; Twelve Stones Where the Ark of the Covenant Led Us through the Jordan River.
Read and inspired by the Old Testament, The Book of Josue Chapters 1-4
Bible Notes:
This Book is so called, because it was written in large part by Josue and is a history of the Jews under his rule. It records the Jewish conquest of the Promised Land, its final distribution, and the last address and death of Josue.
Josue Chapter 1: The Lord encourages Josue; Josue prepares to cross the Jordan; The Rubenites and Gadites agree to help.
Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke to Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses and said to him…
Toward the going down of the sun
No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I have been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee or forsake thee. Take courage, and be strong: for thou shall divide by lot to this people the land… Take courage therefore, and be very vigilant: that thou mayst observe and do all the law… turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst understand all things which thou dost… but thou shall meditate on it day and night… the Lord thy God is with thee in all things whatsoever thou shalt go to.
Prepare your victuals: for after the third day you shall pass over the Jordan and shall go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give you.
Victuals—victuals, food supplies; provisions.
And he said to the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses… remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan… until the Lord give rest to your brethren as he hath given you… beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun… as we obeyed Moses in all things, so will we obey thee also: only be the Lord thy God with thee, as he was with Moses.
Josue Chapter 2: Rahab receives and conceals two spies; Covenant between Rahab and the spies; The spies escape; The scarlet cord; The spies report to Josue.
Josue sent from Setin two men, to spy secretly… Go and view the land and the city of Jericho. They went and entered into the house of a woman that was a harlot named Raha, and lodged with her… the king of Jericho… and the woman taking the men hid them.
Rahah: I know that the Lord hath given this land to you: for the dread of you is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have lost all strength… and hearing these things we were afrightened, and our heart fainted away, neither did there remain any spirit in us at your coming in: for the Lord your God is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath.
Rahah: I have shown mercy to you, so you also will show mercy to my father’s house: and give me a true token…
Two Spies to Rahah: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will show thee mercy and truth.
This scarlet cord be a sign… as you have spoken, so be it done. And sending them on their way, she hung the scarlet cord in the window…
Two Spies to Josue: The Lord hath delivered all this land into our hands, and all the inhabitants thereof are overthrown with fear.
Josue Chapter 3: The Israelites come to the Jordan; The Lord instructs Josue; Josue instructs the people; The Jordan dried up for their crossing.
And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, So I am with thee also…
By this you shall know that the Lord the living God is in the midst of you…Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth shall go before you into the Jordan. Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe…
The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain… those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of wilderness (which is now called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed…
And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that carried the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over through the channel that was dried up.
Josue Chapter 4: Monument commemorating the crossing; Twelve stones put in river bed; Forty thousand men march on Jericho; God magnifies Josue; The Monument in Galgal.
One out of every tribe…to the midst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone…
And Josue put other twelve stones in the midst of the channel of the Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the Ark of the Covenant: and they are there until this present day.
And the people made haste and passed over…
And forty thousand fighting men by their troops, and bands, marched through the plains and fields of the city of Jericho…
In that day the Lord magnified Josue in the sight of all Israel, that they should fear him, as they had feared Moses, while he lived.
The waters returned into the channel, and ran as they were wont before…
What mean these stones? You shall teach them and say: Israel passed over this Jordan through the dry channel. The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your sight, until you passed over, as he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried up till be passed through, that all the people of the earth may learn the most mighty hand of the Lord, that you also may fear the Lord your God for ever.
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