THE STORY OF JOSHUA

Hello 👋 friends, good to see you again and we will be discussing the STORY OF JOSHUA. 

Joshua was the son of Nun, born in Egypt to an Ephraimite, his name was Hosea but Moses called him Joshua and it reminded his name till date. He was Moses’s assistant and then his successor, and he was among the twelve spies of the Israelites sent by Moses to survey the Canaan land. He gave a good report with Caleb and as such received his promise that he will enter the Promise Land. (Numbers 13)

He was young when the Israelites departed from the land of Egypt and he was faithful, courageous, determined, humble, deserving, and a wise man. He was in charge of the team/soldiers that fought and defeated the Amalek in Rephidim. He proved to Moses his desire to be trustworthy, loyal and faithful, Moses took him wherever he goes and he was with Moses when he ascended Mount Sinai to discuss with God, and received the Ten Commandments. He handled most of the affairs for Moses in his absence and did extremely well in all the things that was committed to him. 

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Deuteronomy 31:14&15&23. After the death of Moses, Joshua was chosen as his successor and he led the Israelites in conquering and taking possession of the Promise Land, he also allocated territories to the 12 tribes of Israel. 

(Joshua 3&4) The River Jordan parted for the Israelites and they were able to walk on dry ground and they took 12 stones from the middle of the dried River Jordan as a memorial statues as God commanded. (Joshua 5) Joshua circumcised the male children of Israel in Gilgal and spent until the wounds were healed and they were able to observe “Passover” in Gilgal. 

Now the Lord sent an angel as the Commander of the Lord’s army to Joshua as they near Jericho. Note, Jericho was a fortified city and was strictly locked because of the Israelites but God gave Joshua a strategy to conquer it. The cities wall collapse as the Israelites walk around the city seven times, gave a loud shouts  and blowed their trumpets 🎺. (Joshua 6). 

(Joshua 8) The Lord commanded Joshua to take his soldiers to battle against Ai and the Israelites defeated Ai and took their possessions. Joshua built an alter at Mount Ebal and they offered Burnt offerings to the Lord. 

(Joshua 9) The Israelites was deceived by the Gibeonites and they made a solemn promise with them but they later found out about the Gibeonnites deceptions, they turned them into slavery and they were slaves in Israel till this day.

(Joshua 10) The Israelites captured five kings of the Amorite (Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon). And the Israelites gained more territory by defeating and destroying the Makkedah. 

A notable event took place in Gibeon when Joshua asked the Lord to command the sun and moon to stand still and it was in record that the sun did not go down and Joshua and his soldiers were able to finish their attacks on broad-daylight. The Lord fought for the Israelites and hurled huge hailstones from above that killed more Canaanite. 

Hebron (formally Arba) was given to Caleb for his faithfulness in obeying the Lord God of Israel when he brought an excellent report when they spied the land of Canaan. Joshua, assigned other territories to other tribes of Israel as the Lord commanded. 

(Joshua 24) He gathered the Israelites together at Shechem and instructed them to choose the god they will serve and said, as for me and my family, we will serve the living God. And the people agreed to serve the Lord and the people pledged their loyalty to God.

Joshua lived a good life and died at 110 years and he was buried in the city of Timnath Serah in the northern part of Mount Gaash. 

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