Archives for October 2021

“The bones of Yosef, which the people of Isra’el had brought up from Egypt, they buried in Sh’khem, in the parcel of ground which Ya‘akov had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Sh’khem for a hundred pieces of silver; and they became a possession of the descendants of Yosef.”-Joshua 24:32 In the […]

“After this, Y’hoshua the son of Nun, the servant of Adonai, died; he was 110 years old. They buried him on his property in Timnat-Serach, which is in the hills of Efrayim, north of Mount Ga‘ash.”-Joshua 24:29 After many tough years of leading God’s people, we’re told Joshua passed away at the ripe old age […]

“Y’hoshua wrote these words in the book of the Torah of God. Then he took a big stone and set it up there under the oak next to the sanctuary of Adonai.”-Joshua 24:26 We encounter a problem when we read verse 26 where it says the standing stone was placed under a tree “next to […]

Alrighty, let’s get on with the question I posed in yesterday’s post. When Joshua erected a stone monument at Shechem in a sincere effort memorialize the covenant renewal ceremony, was he in the right or was he in the wrong? Well, before I get down to my final answer, there’s a couple of things we […]

“So Y’hoshua made a covenant with the people that day, laying down for them laws and rulings there in Sh’khem.”-Joshua 24:25 So Joshua commands the people one final time to get rid of all their god idols they’ve got hidden away not only in their tents but also in their hearts. That’s something important to […]