Today, let’s talk a little bit about why God did NOT want Israel to have an earthly king. The reason why is because installing a typical gentile monarchy into Israel would have radically altered the Lord’s relationship with His People. In other words, the people would have become divided in their loyalties. Remember, Yeshua said…“No […]

Although I lightly touched upon it yesterday, I want to talk a little bit more about how Israel’s kingdom was different than any other pagan kingdom in the world at the time. In the gentile world, when a king took over new territory, this freshly conquered land was never given to the common people. In […]

At this point in the Scriptures, while Israel may have conquered the major parts of the land of Canaan, there still remained lots to do. Many smaller pockets of rebellion ruled by minor kings still needed to be dealt with. Israel may have had gained control over the land of Canaan, but the lengthy goal […]

“Moshe the servant of Adonai, with the people of Isra’el, defeated them; and Moshe the servant of Adonai gave it to the Re’uveni, the Gadi and the half-tribe of M’nasheh as their possession.Following are the kings of the land whom Y’hoshua, with the people of Isra’el, defeated in the area west of the Yarden, between […]

“the ‘Aravah to Lake Kinneret eastward and to the sea of the ‘Aravah, the Dead Sea, eastward by way of Beit-Yeshimot and on the south under the slopes of Pisgah.  There was also the territory of ‘Og king of Bashan, who belonged to the remnant of the Refa’im. He lived at ‘Ashtarot and at Edre‘i.”-Joshua […]