{"id":585,"date":"2012-03-14T22:49:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T05:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2012-03-14T22:49:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T05:49:50","slug":"joshua-141-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Joshua 14:1-15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joshua 14:1-15.\u00a0 Sorry for the late posting of this, my internet was down all day today.\u00a0 Yesterday I mentioned that Chapters 13-21 of Joshua describe the division of the promised land.\u00a0 Chapter 13 remineded us that Moses had given land to 2\u00bd tribes on the East side of the Jordan River.\u00a0 If you followed chapter 13 closely you might have noticed that twice we were told that the tribe of Levi did not get any land (Joshua 13:14,33).\u00a0 Those verses also explained why, God was their provider, they were to get a part of the offerings to God (See also \u201cThe Twelve?\u201d<\/a>).\u00a0 Numbers often have symbolic meaning to different people.\u00a0 The Jewish people seem to favor the number twelve as a number of human completeness.\u00a0 Therefore they tried to keep things in lists of twelve.\u00a0 To compensate for Levi not getting a piece of the land Joseph was divided into two parts, Manasseh and Ephraim.\u00a0 This was by their grand-father, Jacob (Israel, see \u201cWhat\u2019s In A Name?\u201d<\/a>).\u00a0 At that time he also blessed them both but he gave a greater blessing to the younger brother Ephraim (Genesis 48:1-20).\u00a0 Jacob then went on the tell Joseph that one day he would return to the promised land and would receive the a double portion.\u00a0 Of course that would happen over 400 years later though his descendants.<\/p>\n

After blessing Joseph, Jacob turned to his other children and made prophetic statements about each of them (Genesis 49:1-27).\u00a0 In Genesis 49:28 these statements are called blessings.\u00a0 In Genesis 49:5-7 Levi and Simeon receive their \u201cblessing\u201d together.\u00a0 It seems more like a curse though when Jacob tells them that their inheritance is to be scattered and disbursed in the land.\u00a0 As we have seen Levi did not receive a territory.\u00a0 Later we will see more detail about how this worked out.\u00a0 Also Jacob\u2019s blessing for Judah was generous (Genesis 49:8-12).\u00a0 Overall many of the \u201cblessings\u201d given by Jacob find at least part of their fulfillment in the distribution of the land.\u00a0 These divisions were not equal but they did seem to fit the particular families or tribes that received them.<\/p>\n

As we will see Judah will be favored in the division of the land.\u00a0 They will also be first to receive their part with a special member of the tribe, Caleb, receiving his first.\u00a0 Today\u2019s reading is about Caleb\u2019s portion and he didn\u2019t wait around for Joshua to get to him.\u00a0 Caleb was one of two people from his generation allowed to enter the promised land, the other was Joshua.\u00a0 They were tow of twelve spies went into the promised land when the Israelites first arrived 45 years earlier.\u00a0\u00a0 The other ten spies scared the people about taking the land.\u00a0 Caleb and Joshua encouraged the people to take the land promised by God.\u00a0 The people listened to the tem and got banished from the land.\u00a0 In Numbers 14:24 God praised Caleb and promised the land to his descendants.\u00a0 Moses also mentioned Caleb\u2019s faithfulness in Deuteronomy 1:36 using almost the same words.\u00a0 Finally here in Joshua 14:8 Caleb, using the same words, describes his faithfulness.\u00a0 In verse 9 he adds the information that Moses had made a solemn promise to him about receiving the very land he had walked on.\u00a0 We also find out at least part of why he is in such a hurry in verse 7, he was forty back in the day when he spied out the land, now it was forty-five years later.\u00a0 That\u2019s a long time to wait for a promise.\u00a0 But he had remained fit both spiritually and physically (Joshua 14:11) and was ready to fight.\u00a0 So he was given a city in the hill country of south central Israel.\u00a0 Later in the book we will see that the city included surrounding villages and land.\u00a0 The interesting part about this city was it\u2019s name.\u00a0 It was renamed Hebron when Caleb took it over\u00a0 but it had benn called Kiriath-arba.\u00a0 Kiraith means \u201ccity of\u201d and Arba was the name of the greatest of the people known as Anakim.\u00a0 As we saw in an earlier post these people were great and powerful and Anak was the best, but he was now match for a revved up Caleb especially with God behind him, and evidently Caleb always made sure God had his back.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting that different people received different promises, different blessings, and as we will see different allotments.\u00a0 But the blessings of Jacob seemed to fit who the people were.\u00a0 And Caleb received a special promise because he was faithful.\u00a0 It\u2019s nice to know that God notices and that He cares.\u00a0 It\u2019s also cool that Caleb had conviction that God would reward his faithfulness.\u00a0 God help me be faithful to you.\u00a0 Help me stick up for you.\u00a0 Help me be patient, waiting for your timing.\u00a0 Let me be ready when you open the door.\u00a0 Let me be like Caleb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joshua 14:1-15.\u00a0 Sorry for the late posting of this, my internet was down all day today.\u00a0 Yesterday I mentioned that Chapters 13-21 of Joshua describe the division of the promised land.\u00a0 Chapter 13 remineded us that Moses had given land to 2\u00bd tribes on the East side of the Jordan River.\u00a0 If you followed chapter […]<\/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-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deltaforcedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}