Notes: June 1, 2008 - Joshua 16-17
Bob Feather June 1st, 2008
Meditation Points:
- Joshua 16:10; Joshua 17:13. We should never think that we are so strong in the Lord that we can control sin ourselves. Israel thought that forcing the Canaanites into servitude was a good idea; but they would find this unresolved issue to be a constant irritation in subsequent generations. When we think that we are strong enough to keep our own lusts on a leash, we soon find out that the leash we’ve made is insufficient for the task. When God says to mortify the deeds of the flesh, He doesn’t mean to lock them up and keep them in a box.
- Joshua 17:14-18. If you think you are so strong, why don’t you do more for the Lord?
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Joshua 16:10
10And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
Joshua 17:13
13Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not utterly drive them out.
Joshua 17:14-18
14And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?
15And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
16And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
17And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only:
18But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
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