JOSHUA

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Updated 12/2023



CHAPTER 1

  1. Joshua must mediate on the law day and night and do all that is written in it.

CHAPTER 2

  1. Rahab, the harlot, hid the men of Israel.
  2. Rahab’s people were in terror and fainthearted because of Israel.
  3. Rahab asked that Israel spare her, her mother, father, sisters, and brothers from death.
  4. Rahab was instructed to have everyone in the home and the window marked with a scarlet cord.

CHAPTER 3

  1. When the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant feet touched the edge of the water, the Jordan stopped flowing, and all the people walked over on dry ground.

CHAPTER 4

  1. Twelve stones were taken from the Jordan river for a memorial.
  2. In the place Israel was to lodge, Gilgal, they set up the stones as a memorial.

CHAPTER 5

  1. The people had neglected circumcising their sons for the past forty years.
  2. The manna ceased to form on the ground once the people ate of the produce of the land.
  3. Joshua saw an angel of the Lord, the commander of the Lord's army, standing by Jericho.

CHAPTER 6

  1. The men were to march around the city once each day for six days sounding trumpets. On the seventh day, they were to circle the city seven times, blowing trumpets and shout out loud on the last march.
  2. Israel took the silver, gold, bronze, and iron and put them in the treasury of the house of the Lord.
  3. Rahab and her family were spared and dwelled with Israel.

CHAPTER 7

  1. God was not with them because of Achan's sin.
  2. Achan had kept some spoil for himself, and he did not give the silver and gold to the house of the Lord.
  3. He and his family were stoned to death and they with all their livestock and household goods were burned up.

CHAPTER 8

  1. Joshua was to set an ambush behind the city while others drew the men of Ai out front into the field.
  2. Joshua set up the whitewashed stones on Mount Ebal and read out of the book of the law of the blessings and cursing that Moses had instructed them to do once they came into the new land.

CHAPTER 9

  1. The Hivites pretended to a people from far away by wearing old and worn clothes and sandals, old sacks on their donkeys, and bringing dry and molded bread with them on the premise of wanting to become servants of Israel.
  2. Joshua and the rulers neglected to inquire of God what to do.
  3. The Hivites became woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord.

CHAPTER 10

  1. Five kings came against Gibeon.
  2. Joshua and his men came to help Gibeon.
  3. Joshua asked for the sun to stand still and the moon to stop until all the Amorites were defeated.
  4. The five kings were killed by Joshua and hung on five trees.

CHAPTER 11

  1. King Hazor rounded up other kings to fight with him against Israel.
  2. The number of King Hazor and his company was more than the sand on the seashore.
  3. King Hazor and his company were killed, and their cities were utterly destroyed.

CHAPTER 12

  1. There were thirty-one kings defeated by Israel on the west side of the Jordan.

CHAPTER 13

  1. The land of the Philistines and the Geshurites was still to be taken.
  2. Nine and one half tribes were still to receive land.

CHAPTER 14

  1. Caleb was eighty-five years old when he received his land.
  2. The land of Hebron became Caleb's.

CHAPTER 15

1.      Caleb offered his daughter Achsah as wife to the one who Kirjath Sepher.

CHAPTER 16

1.      Ephraim and Manasseh received the land around Jericho.

CHAPTER 17

  1. a. They were a large group, and the land was not big enough. They were also afraid of the Canaanites who still dwelt in the land. b. Joshua told them to cut down all the trees and expand their territory and to drive out the Canaanites.

CHAPTER 18

  1. The Tabernacle of Meeting was set up in Shiloh.
  2. Seven tribes remained to receive land.

CHAPTER 19

  1. The lot fell to Benjamin, then Simeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Dan.
  2. Simeon received his land within the tribe of Judah's land.
  3. The land in the mountains of Ephraim.

CHAPTER 20

  1. The tribes of Naphtali, Ephraim, and Judah had three cities of refuge on the west side of the Jordan.
  2. The tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh had the other three cities of refuge on the east side of the Jordan.

CHAPTER 21

  1. The Levites received land and cities within all of the twelve tribes.
  2. The Levites received forty-eight cities.

CHAPTER 22

  1. Joshua reminded the people to heed the commandments of the Lord, to walk in His ways, and to love Him with all their heart.
  2. a. They built an altar to God. b. They built the altar as a witness between them and their brethren on the other side of the Jordan that the Lord is God and their God. They feared the descendants west of the Jordan would say that they had no part in God since the river separated them.

CHAPTER 23

  1. If the people turned away from God then God would bring horrible things on them and their enemies would attack them until they all perished from the land.

CHAPTER 24

  1. The people needed to fear God and serve Him in sincerity and truth.
  2. The people had to choose to serve God or to serve the false gods.
  3. God was holy and jealous. He would not forgive their transgressions or sins.
  4. The people chose to serve God.
  5. Joshua placed a stone under an oak tree by the sanctuary as a witness of the people’s choice to serve God.