Joshua 24:29-33 Download audio Download sermon We come this morning to the last paragraph of this great book. It forms an inclusio for the book as a whole. Joshua is mentioned in the first verses of the book and his death and burial in the last. We have made a point of saying many times […]
Joshua 24:14-28 Download audio We said last time that what we have in Joshua 24 is the account of a ceremony of covenant renewal. The chapter bears the marks of the literary form of the ancient near eastern treaties after which God’s covenant with Israel was described, especially in Exodus and Deuteronomy. In vv. 1-13 […]
Joshua 24:1-13 Download audio Chapter 24 contains the second and last of Joshua’s farewell addresses to Israel, the first of which, found in chapter 23, we considered last Lord’s Day morning. This chapter concludes the fourth and final section of Joshua, the key word of which section we said is the Hebrew verb “to serve.” […]
Joshua 23:1-16 Download audio Drawing near to the end of the book of Joshua we come this morning to chapter 23 and we’re reading all sixteen verses of that chapter. Near the end of his life Joshua delivered two farewell addresses to the nation of Israel, to the nation as represented by its leadership: the […]
Joshua 22:1-34 Download audio I draw your attention to Joshua 22, another of these texts that, unless your minister preaches through the Bible paragraph by paragraph, chapter by chapter, you are highly unlikely to ever hear preached. More’s the pity because it has a very important message. With chapter 22, we begin the fourth and […]
Joshua 21:1-45 Download audio Having considered in chapter 20 the establishment of the cities of refuge, an important part of Israel’s criminal justice system, we move now to the much larger number of Levitical cities, only six of which happened to be cities of refuge. We have read several times earlier in the book that […]
Joshua 20:1-9 Download audio As we noticed last time, the material following verse 10 of chapter 18, details the allotment of the seven tribes whose allotment had not been assigned. As we have been making our way through Joshua, we have been thinking most of the time about the pattern of salvation and the Christian’s […]
Joshua 17:14-18:10 Download audio We have said from the beginning of our studies in Joshua and as we are taught elsewhere in the Bible, the history of the conquest provides a pattern or a paradigm of salvation. Israel got Canaan the way sinners get to heaven. Israel’s experiences upon entering the Promised Land were like […]
Joshua 14:1-15 Download audio We have been away from Joshua for three weeks, so let me remind you where we are. With chapter 13 we began the third of the four major sections of the book. This is the section devoted to the distribution or allotment of the land. Israel had conquered Canaan; now it […]
Joshua 13:1-33 Download audio We come to Joshua 13, reading vv. 1-23 and then 32 and 33 at the end of the chapter. Chapter 13 begins the third major section of the book of Joshua. The first section, in which the key word was the Hebrew verb “to cross,” concerned Israel’s crossing of the Jordan […]