Joshua 22



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Joshua means saviour, or whose help is God. His name appears in the various forms of HOSHEA, OSHEA, JEHOSHUA, JESHUA and JESUS.
 
Joshua and Caleb were the only two, that enter the promise land in that generation under the age of 20.
 
Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed,
 
Joshua 1:2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
 
God uses Joshua to bring the tribes of Israel to the promised land. This will be the last time God cleaned the land from the heathen nations. The next time will be the 7th vial is poured out on the wicked.
 
Bible Study the book of Joshua
 
The sun and Moon stood still in their habitation
 
Joshua 10:8 And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.
  • Who said this? The Lord said, fear not; for I have delivered them into thine hand, not a man of them stand before thee.
9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.

10 And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
  • Beth-horon = The upper Beth-horon, which stood at the head of the Pass to the coast.
  • Azekah near Shochoh, were Goliath afterwards opposed Israel.
  • 1 Samuel 17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

12 Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
  • The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.
  • Jasher means "the book of the Upright". The book of law
14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel.
 
Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
 
15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
 
Joshua 23:1 And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.

2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:

3 And ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the Lord your God is he that hath fought for you.

4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.

5 And the Lord your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the Lord your God hath promised unto you.

6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;

7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
  • No where is it written to have Easter hut for eggs, its a heathen holiday tradition
  • PassOver is The most Holy Day of the year. Christ "our Passover is sacrificed for us." 1 Corinthians 5:7.
8 But cleave unto the Lord your God, as ye have done unto this day.

9 For the Lord hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.

10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.

11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.

12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

13 Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.
 
 Joshua was of the tribe of Ephraim

1. The son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim. 1 Chronicles 7:27. ( B.C. 1530-1420.)
 
He was nearly forty years old when he shared in the hurried triumph of the exodus.
 
He is mentioned first in connection with the fight against Amalek at Rephidim, when he was chosen by Moses to lead the Israelites. Exodus 17:9.
 
Soon afterward he was one of the twelve chiefs who were sent, Numbers 13:17, to explore the land of Canaan, and one of the two, ch. 14:6, who gave an encouraging report of their journey.
 
Moses, shortly before his death, was directed, Numbers 27:18, to invest Joshua with authority over the people.
 
 God himself gave Joshua a charge by the mouth of the dying lawgiver. Deuteronomy 31:14,23.
 
Under the direction of God again renewed, Joshua 1:1.
 
Joshua assumed the command of the people at Shittim, sent spies into Jericho, crossed the Jordan, fortified a camp at Gilgal, circumcised the people, kept the passover, and was visited by the Captain of the Lord's host.
 
A miracle made the fall of Jericho more terrible to the Canaanites.
 
 In the great battle of Beth-horon the Amorites were signally routed, and the south country was open to the Israelites.
 
Joshua returned to the camp at Gilgal, master of half of Palestine.
 
He defeated the Canaanites under Jabin king of Hazor.
 
In six years, six tribes, with thirty-one petty chiefs, were conquered.
 
Joshua, now stricken in years, proceeded to make the division of the conquered land.
 
Timnath-serah in Mount Ephraim was assigned as Joshua's peculiar inheritance.
 
After an interval of rest, Joshua convoked an assembly from all Israel.
 
He delivered two solemn addresses, recorded in Joshua 23-24.
 
He died at the age of 110 years, and was buried in his own city, Timnath-serah.

2. An inhabitant of Beth-shemesh, in whose land was the stone at which the milch-kine stopped when they drew the ark of God with the offerings of the Philistines from Ekron to Beth-shemesh. 1 Samuel 6:14,18. ( B.C. 1124.)

3. A governor of the city who gave his name to a gate of Jerusalem. 2 Kings 23:8. (In the reign of Josiah, B.C. 628.)
4. Jeshua the son of Jozadak. Haggai 1:14; 2:12; Zechariah 3:1
 
Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
 
  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
 
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25

 
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