Forget not Him that gave the good, and always be ready to resign it at his command. Be humbled when you compare the gift with your own unworthiness. Are we in prosperity and peace? It is from above. Is the lot of any servant of Christ cast in affliction and sorrow? It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good. All contests and selfish claims were prevented by the wise appointment of God, who allotted the hill and the valley, the corn and pasture, the brooks and rivers, the towns and cities. He accompanied Moses part of the way up Mount Sinai and also assisted him at the tent of meeting. Verses 11-28 The boundaries of each portion were distinctly drawn, and the inheritance of each tribe settled. Joshua was a spiritual and military leader of Israel. He is ready to do his part, if they will do theirs. How long shall it be thus with us? How long shall we thus stand in our own light, and forsake our own mercies for lying vanities? Joshua stirs the Israelites up to take possession of their lots. God, by his grace, has given us a title to a good land, the heavenly Canaan, but we are slack to take possession of it we enter not into that rest, as we might by faith, and hope, and holy joy. Verses 2-10 After a year or more, Joshua blamed their slackness, and told them how to proceed. Joshua 1 English Standard Version God Commissions Joshua 1 After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, 2 Moses my servant is dead. It is supposed by some that the city was thus called, when it was chosen for the resting-place of the ark, which typified our great Peace-maker, and the way by him to a reconciled God. The name of this city is the same as that by which Jacob prophesied of the Messiah, Ge. 49:10. 2 And it was told to the king of Jericho, Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search. And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. 2 And Joshua the son of Nun sent a two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, Go, view the land, especially Jericho. Verse 1 Shiloh was in the lot of Ephraim, the tribe to which Joshua belonged, and it was proper that the tabernacle should be near the residence of the chief governor. 3 Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. (30-35) Verses 1-2 When we have faithfully put away sin, that accursed thing which separates between us and God, then, and not till then, we may look to hear from God to our comfort and God's directing us how to go on in our Christian work and warfare. (23-29) The law read on Ebal and Gerizim. 23 A long time afterward, when the Lord had given e rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua f was old and well advanced in years, 2 Joshua g summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, I am now old and well advanced in years. (1) The remainder of the land described and divided. (3-22) The destruction of Ai and its king.
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