Today I am reading Joshua 11-15. Previously in Joshua, he and the tribes had over taken quite a few kings. God gave them the land and the people and they took them.
Chapter 11
So King Jabin of Hazor heard all about what was going on and told ALL the kings he know, and they all gathered their armies and stood guard to fight the Israelites. Well, God, as great as He is had already promised the land and the people to Israel. He told Joshua not to fear the armies, that He would hand them over to them. They took them down! Even burned their chariots! Joshua and his army killed everyone in the city and then burned it down. I know it sounds bad, but that's what God wanted. Joshua had to do it.
Then the land rested from war. All the tribes of Israel shared the land.
Chapter 12
This chapter mainly is a list of all the kings the Israelites defeated with the Lord's help. 31 in all! Imagine all the land form all those kingdoms east AND west of the Jordan River!!
Chapter 13
God tells Joshua in his old age that there is still so much land to be conquered. He even moves the people from those kingdoms ahead of time. He wants Joshua to divide the land among the tribes. To the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh was given allotments east of the Jordan. Levi received a portion of the offering they had burned for the Lord. And that was all the land of the Eastern side of the Jordan River.
Chapter 14
This is the land of the West side of the Jordan River. He gave that land to all the other tribe but not the Levites. They only received cities to live in with pastures around them. He divided it according to rules from Moses. Caleb requested his land that Moses has blessed upon him, and Joshua gave it to him.
Chapter 15
This chapter tells of all the land given to the tribe of Judah. The southern border was from the south bay of the Dead Sea all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. The eastern border stretched along the Dead Sea to the mouth of the Jordan River. The northern border was from the bay where the Jordan River empties into the Dead Sea all the way to Mediterranean Sea. And the western border was the shore line of the Mediterranean Sea. But the land that was given to Caleb he still conquered more. He gave his daughter to whoever defeated and captured Kiriath-sepher. Othniel captured him and married Caleb's daughter. He
gaver her the upper and lower springs as requested.
Then God alloted towns to Judah.
The Jebusites could not be driven out of the towns so they lived with the triber of Judah to this day.
I know these are so full of war in Joshua, but this was when God was giving the land He promised to the
tribes. Than the Lord for His faithfulness. Amen.
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Lanie
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