Notes: May 30, 2008 - Joshua 13-14
Bob Feather May 30th, 2008
Meditation Points:
- Joshua 13:1. Have you accomplished everything in life that you had hoped? Has age taken its toll on you both mentally and physically? Do you expect to “get it all done” before you die?
- Joshua 13:6; Joshua 14:2. The land is divided by lot. Not by “chance”, but by lot. It was not lucky that a particular tribe received a particular piece of property; it was providential–God controls the casting of lots (Proverbs 16:33; Proverbs 18:18).
- Joshua 13:14,33. In lieu of property, the Levites had the presence and service of God as their inheritance. How many family arguments about the disposition of estates would be ended of everyone were content to have God for an inheritance?
- Joshua 14:10-11. Joshua was old and stricken; but Caleb was still going strong. They had the same living environment for 40 years. We don’t all age the same.
- Joshua 14:12. Don’t fear the giants if the Lord is with you. Ask for the mountain.
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Joshua 13:1
1Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
Joshua 13:6
6All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
Joshua 14:2
2By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
Proverbs 16:33
33The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Proverbs 18:18
18The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
Joshua 13:14,33
14Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.
33But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.
Joshua 14:10-11
10And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
11As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
Joshua 14:12
12Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
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