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“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 […]

 “Y’hoshua said to the people, ‘You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Adonai, to serve him.’” -Joshua 24:22 The importance and real meaning of verse 22 is something we modern folks overlook. Because in the ancient world, it carried an entirely different meaning. After Joshua first rejected Israel’s answer to the question “Will […]

But the people said to Y’hoshua, “‘No, but we will serve Adonai.’ Y’hoshua said to the people, ‘You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Adonai, to serve him.’ They answered, ‘We are witnesses.’ ‘Now,’ Y’hoshua urged, ‘put away the foreign gods you have among you, and turn your hearts to Adonai, the God […]