Psalia.History & narrative / About this book
Israel crosses the Jordan, faces conflict and receives its allotted land. The accounts include both faithfulness and failure, and end with a call to choose whom to serve. Read the violent scenes within this particular story rather than as permission for violence today.
EDITORIAL REFLECTION · NOT SCRIPTURE
Follow the story across more than one scene. Keep track of people, places, decisions, and consequences, especially when the account changes its focus. What a person does in a narrative is not automatically what the reader is being told to do.
Notice how the narrator presents success, failure, memory, and responsibility. A brief note about what has changed can help you pick up the thread when you return to the next chapter.
Use the outline to see the larger movement before settling into a chapter. Each section opens at its first chapter in the reader.
1Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying,
2“Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go across this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which I am giving to them, even to the children of Israel.
3I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses.
4From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
5No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
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How do the opening call to courage and the final call to faithfulness belong together?
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