{"id":577,"date":"2012-03-13T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/?p=577"},"modified":"2012-03-13T09:30:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:30:57","slug":"joshua-1324-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Joshua 13:24-33"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joshua 13:24-23. Chapters 1-12 described the taking of the land promised to Israel\u2019s descendants over four hundred years earlier.\u00a0 Chapters 13-21 of Joshua tell of the division of the land.\u00a0 In the first 12 chapters we saw God very active alongside of the Israelites as they took the land.\u00a0 It has been very clear that God was the major player in those battles.\u00a0 In fact very early on, at Ai, they learned the cost of fighting without God.\u00a0 God will be active in this portion of the book too but in a different sort of way.\u00a0 And people will also be involved.\u00a0 In yesterday\u2019s reading Joshua was told it was time to divide up the land.\u00a0 He had been assigned this job by God before Moses died (Numbers 34:16-17).\u00a0 There was still land that was not entirely conquered within the boundaries that were divided up but Joshua was getting old, those conquests would have to wait for the next generation.\u00a0 Incidentally those people groups mentioned in Joshua 13:2-4 are not the same ones mentioned earlier in the book nor are they the same as the ones mentioned in Deuteronomy 7:1 (See the 3\/5\/12<\/a> post).\u00a0 Those tribes mentioned earlier had been completely wiped out in the land (Except for the Gibeonites and Rahab\u2019s family).\u00a0 God was faithful but the work needed to go on.\u00a0 We do not live in a static world.\u00a0 In fact the Philistines did not really start coming to the land until 1200 BC.\u00a0 The Philistines in Chapter 13 must have been some of the first.<\/p>\n

As we saw earlier the battles had taken at least 5 years (3\/9\/12<\/a>).\u00a0 This is based on some statements made by Caleb in the next chapter.\u00a0 In those statements Caleb mentions being 85 years old.\u00a0 Many scholars assume that Joshua was about the same age as Caleb since they were both part of the original spies that Moses had sent into the land before Israel spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness.\u00a0 Because of his conduct at that time Joshua, along with Caleb, was exempt and was not banished from the land.\u00a0 Joshua would have to have been over twenty to be under that curse.\u00a0 So he was at most 20 years younger than Caleb.\u00a0 I think he was probably older though.<\/p>\n

The events of chapters 13-21 seem to take place immediately after chapters 1-12 and that makes the most sense.\u00a0 The conquest got them the right place and the next step would be to divide it up.\u00a0 If too much time passed other people groups might repopulate and the battles would have to be re-fought.\u00a0 As I mentioned above the Philistines were just starting to enter the land.\u00a0 Later in the book of Judges we see that some of theses other people groups begin to reenter the land.\u00a0 At the end of the chapters on the division of the land we are told that the people lived in the land, possessed it, and had rest.\u00a0 That might lead us to believe that some time was passing.\u00a0 Chapter 22, though, tells a story about the 2\u00bd tribes from the eastern side of the Jordan River returning home.\u00a0 It seems unlikely that the rest of the tribes were living in peace and those guys were hanging around for too long.\u00a0 Chapter 23 begins with \u201cafter many days\u201d so there may be some time there after the conquest and division before Joshua dies.\u00a0 In Joshua 23:1 the exact same phrase is used to describe Joshua as is used in Joshua 13:1. Though. Chapter 23 begins Joshua\u2019s final speeches to the Israelites before he died.\u00a0 At the end of his two speeches he died at the age of 110 (Joshua 24:29).\u00a0 Whether Joshua was 85 when he divided the land or older God wanted him to follow through an that assignment.<\/p>\n

In the reading yesterday and today God is very specific about the land.\u00a0 In today\u2019s reading he gives details about the land on the eastern side of the Jordan River that was given to the 2\u00bd tribes by Moses.\u00a0 The details given here were not given in the Bible before this but we are told that this is what Moses did.\u00a0 This sets the stage for Joshua.\u00a0 Through out this book we see Joshua following in the footsteps of Moses.<\/p>\n

I think that it is important to keep remembering that God is detail oriented.\u00a0 He is closely involved in our lives.\u00a0 Also it is important to remember that God is both faithful and consistent.\u00a0 The leadership of Joshua was connected with the leadership of Moses.\u00a0 We need to be very careful when people come along with a whole new way of doing things.\u00a0 I know that Jesus upset many people in his day (and ours) but it really was consistent with the Old Testament (See \u201cThe Old Testament Connection\u201d<\/a>).\u00a0 It\u2019s nice to know that God is faithful and close and consistent.\u00a0 God help me be comforted by your \u201csameness\u201d. There should be no surprises.\u00a0 You told us we can know we have eternal life (1 John 5:13).\u00a0 Thank you for showing us the way and not changing it.\u00a0 Thank you for your love and for eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joshua 13:24-23. Chapters 1-12 described the taking of the land promised to Israel\u2019s descendants over four hundred years earlier.\u00a0 Chapters 13-21 of Joshua tell of the division of the land.\u00a0 In the first 12 chapters we saw God very active alongside of the Israelites as they took the land.\u00a0 It has been very clear that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}