Joshua 8
- God told Joshua to take all of the fighting men to Ai.
- They should take its spoil and livestock
- They should lay an ambush behind the city.
- Joshua sent 30,000 men to lay in ambush while he took others up to Ai as they had before.
- Joshua was going to lure them away from the city.
- The 30,000 men will enter the city and set it on fire.
- Joshua woke up early and sent 5,000 men to Ai for an ambush.
- King Ai had all the men from the city follow Joshua's "beaten" army, leaving the city empty.
- Then Joshua raised his javelin and the ambushers went into Ai and set it on fire.
- They killed all of the men of Ai in that battle except the king whom they took to Joshua.
- They then killed all of the men and women in Ai and took plunder and livestock for themselves.
- Today Ai still lies in ruins and the king was hung until evening and then buried in Ai's gateway with stones.
- On Mount Ebal Joshua built an alter to the Lord.
- They offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on it.
- Joshua wrote the laws of Moses on those stones
- They all stood on either side of the ark between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim
- There Joshua read them the law, the blessings and the curse.
Isaiah 62
- He won't keep silent until Jerusalem see their righteousness and glory
- They will get a new name from God.
- They will be a crown of beauty and a royal diadem (crown with jewels)
- They shall no longer be called Forsaken, Desolate but they shall be renamed My Delight is in Her and Married because God delights in them
- God shall rejoice over them as a groom rejoices over his bride.
- God has appointed watchmen which won't keep quiet
- God has no rest until Jerusalem is made a praise in the world
- God has sworn by his right hand, not to give foreigners their grain or wine again.
- Those who gather and rink it will be in God's holy sanctuary (courts)
- Go through (repeated twice) the gates and prepare a highway for people to come
- Zion's salvation has come
- They shall be called The Holy People,The Redeemed of the Lord;and you shall be called Sought Out,A City Not Forsaken.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Joshua 7 & Isaiah 61
Joshua 7
- Achan, of the tribe of Judah broke faith and took some devoted things, so God's anger burned against Israel.
- Joshua sent spies to Ai, and they said only send a few thousand men because Ai is small.
- 36 men of the 3000 were killed and they fled
- The hearts of the Israelites melted
- Joshua tore his clothes and put his head on the ground by the ark until evening.
- He asked God why he brought them here to be defeated by the Ammmorites
- Joshua feared everyone would hear of this defeat and come out to defeat Israel.
- Joshua also was concerned about doing things for God's name.
- God told Joshua to get up and that someone had stolen devoted things and lied
- Joshua was to address the people and say they will be defeated until the devoted things are returned.
- Joshua was supposed to draw lots to figure out which tribe it was, then they will draw lots by household.
- The person who stole shall be burned along with everything they own.
- Lots were draw and Judah (tribe) was drawn, followed by Zerahites(clan), Zabdi (household), and Achan was selected out of the men.
- Achan admitted that he has sinned and took a cloak, 200 shekels of silver and a large gold bar from their spoils and buried them in his tent.
- Joshua brought Achan and his spoils and his family and animals to the Valley of Achor and stoned Achan first and them everyone and everything else and burned them with fire.
- Achor means trouble
- They covered Achan and his stuff with a large pile of stones that's still there today.
- This turned away God's anger.
Isaiah 61
- Isaiah says that God has anointed him to bring good news to the poor and brokenhearted.
- To proclaim liberty to the captives
- Isaiah is to proclaim the year of the Lord and the day of God's vengeance.
- To replace the ashes of mourners with a beautiful headdress.
- Replace faint spirits with praise and be called "oaks of righteousness"
- God will be glorified and the city will be rebuilt.
- Strangers will watch their flocks and tend their vines.
- The people will speak to the Israelites like ministers and shall be wealthy.
- Shame shall be replaced with rejoicing, a double portion, and everlasting joy.
- God loves justice and hates wrong and robbery.
- God will make an everlasting covenant with them
- Everyone will see they are the offspring of God and blessed.
- Isaiah says he will greatly rejoice in God because he has been clothed by God's garments of salvation and robes of righteousness
- A bridegroom would where a beautiful headdress.
- A bride adorns herself with jewels
- Just like a garden sprouts up what has been sown, God will sprout up righteousness and praise in them before the nations.
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- Achan, of the tribe of Judah broke faith and took some devoted things, so God's anger burned against Israel.
- Joshua sent spies to Ai, and they said only send a few thousand men because Ai is small.
- 36 men of the 3000 were killed and they fled
- The hearts of the Israelites melted
- Joshua tore his clothes and put his head on the ground by the ark until evening.
- He asked God why he brought them here to be defeated by the Ammmorites
- Joshua feared everyone would hear of this defeat and come out to defeat Israel.
- Joshua also was concerned about doing things for God's name.
- God told Joshua to get up and that someone had stolen devoted things and lied
- Joshua was to address the people and say they will be defeated until the devoted things are returned.
- Joshua was supposed to draw lots to figure out which tribe it was, then they will draw lots by household.
- The person who stole shall be burned along with everything they own.
- Lots were draw and Judah (tribe) was drawn, followed by Zerahites(clan), Zabdi (household), and Achan was selected out of the men.
- Achan admitted that he has sinned and took a cloak, 200 shekels of silver and a large gold bar from their spoils and buried them in his tent.
- Joshua brought Achan and his spoils and his family and animals to the Valley of Achor and stoned Achan first and them everyone and everything else and burned them with fire.
- Achor means trouble
- They covered Achan and his stuff with a large pile of stones that's still there today.
- This turned away God's anger.
Isaiah 61
- Isaiah says that God has anointed him to bring good news to the poor and brokenhearted.
- To proclaim liberty to the captives
- Isaiah is to proclaim the year of the Lord and the day of God's vengeance.
- To replace the ashes of mourners with a beautiful headdress.
- Replace faint spirits with praise and be called "oaks of righteousness"
- God will be glorified and the city will be rebuilt.
- Strangers will watch their flocks and tend their vines.
- The people will speak to the Israelites like ministers and shall be wealthy.
- Shame shall be replaced with rejoicing, a double portion, and everlasting joy.
- God loves justice and hates wrong and robbery.
- God will make an everlasting covenant with them
- Everyone will see they are the offspring of God and blessed.
- Isaiah says he will greatly rejoice in God because he has been clothed by God's garments of salvation and robes of righteousness
- A bridegroom would where a beautiful headdress.
- A bride adorns herself with jewels
- Just like a garden sprouts up what has been sown, God will sprout up righteousness and praise in them before the nations.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Joshua 6 & Isaiah 60
Joshua 6
- The city of Jericho shut itself up and no one left or entered the city because they were afraid of Israel.
- God told Joshua to have the men walk around the city for 6 days
- 7 priests shall carry 7 rams horns with the ark on the 7th day and they shall walk around the city 7 times.
- Then the priests will blow their horns and the men shall shout. This will make the walls around Jericho fall.
- The people did as the Lord instructed.
- They blew the horns continuously but weren't supposed to say anything until instructed to do so.
- They spent the night in camp.
- They walked around the city once for 6 days.
- On the 7th day they walked around Jericho 7 times and then the priests blew their horns and the people shouted because God had given them the city.
- The only thing that they should leave untouched is the house of Rahab.
- They shouldn't take anything from the city which would bring destruction upon Israel.
- Everything made of gold, silver, bronze or iron are holy to God and will go in the Lord's treasury.
- They shouted and when the walls fell, all the people and livestock were destroyed.
- Joshua sent in his two spies to get Rahab and her family. She stayed outside the Israelite's camp.
- Rahab would live in Israel with the Israelites because she helped them.
- Joshua said a curse for any man that would rebuild Jericho.
- His curse said - the foundation shall cost that person their firstborn and that person's youngest shall be payment for the gates being hung.
- God was with Joshua and his fame spread.
Isaiah 60
- Their light and the glory of God shall shine.
- Darkness will cover the earth, but the people shall see God's glory in his people.
- Nations and kings will come to the people's brightness.
- Their sons and daughters from afar shall be gathered together and they shall be radiant, thrilled, and exalted.
- Abundance of the sea and the wealth of nations will come to them.
- They shall bring camels, gold and frankincense, and good news.
- Flocks a Kedar will be gathered and the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to them
- How will rams minister?
- God will use these things to beautify His house.
- They shall fly like doves and the ships of Tarshish will bring their children.
- Foreigners shall build up their walls. Is this a reference to the rebuilding in Nehemiah?
- God struck them in His wrath but he will have mercy on them
- Their gates will be open continually and people will bring them gifts.
- Nations that don't serve them will perish
- The wood from Lebanon shall be used for a place for the Lord.
- Those who afflicted Israel will come and bow at their feet.
- God will take them from hated to majestic so that they know He is their savior, redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
- God will give them gold and silver instead of iron and bronze.
- Peace and righteousness will be on them.
- There will be no more violence in the land.
- Salvation will be their walls and Praise will be their gates
- The Lord will be their light, not the sun and the moon
- The people will be righteous and posses the land forever
- God will do all of this to bring glory to Himself
- God will make these things happen
- The city of Jericho shut itself up and no one left or entered the city because they were afraid of Israel.
- God told Joshua to have the men walk around the city for 6 days
- 7 priests shall carry 7 rams horns with the ark on the 7th day and they shall walk around the city 7 times.
- Then the priests will blow their horns and the men shall shout. This will make the walls around Jericho fall.
- The people did as the Lord instructed.
- They blew the horns continuously but weren't supposed to say anything until instructed to do so.
- They spent the night in camp.
- They walked around the city once for 6 days.
- On the 7th day they walked around Jericho 7 times and then the priests blew their horns and the people shouted because God had given them the city.
- The only thing that they should leave untouched is the house of Rahab.
- They shouldn't take anything from the city which would bring destruction upon Israel.
- Everything made of gold, silver, bronze or iron are holy to God and will go in the Lord's treasury.
- They shouted and when the walls fell, all the people and livestock were destroyed.
- Joshua sent in his two spies to get Rahab and her family. She stayed outside the Israelite's camp.
- Rahab would live in Israel with the Israelites because she helped them.
- Joshua said a curse for any man that would rebuild Jericho.
- His curse said - the foundation shall cost that person their firstborn and that person's youngest shall be payment for the gates being hung.
- God was with Joshua and his fame spread.
Isaiah 60
- Their light and the glory of God shall shine.
- Darkness will cover the earth, but the people shall see God's glory in his people.
- Nations and kings will come to the people's brightness.
- Their sons and daughters from afar shall be gathered together and they shall be radiant, thrilled, and exalted.
- Abundance of the sea and the wealth of nations will come to them.
- They shall bring camels, gold and frankincense, and good news.
- Flocks a Kedar will be gathered and the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to them
- How will rams minister?
- God will use these things to beautify His house.
- They shall fly like doves and the ships of Tarshish will bring their children.
- Foreigners shall build up their walls. Is this a reference to the rebuilding in Nehemiah?
- God struck them in His wrath but he will have mercy on them
- Their gates will be open continually and people will bring them gifts.
- Nations that don't serve them will perish
- The wood from Lebanon shall be used for a place for the Lord.
- Those who afflicted Israel will come and bow at their feet.
- God will take them from hated to majestic so that they know He is their savior, redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
- God will give them gold and silver instead of iron and bronze.
- Peace and righteousness will be on them.
- There will be no more violence in the land.
- Salvation will be their walls and Praise will be their gates
- The Lord will be their light, not the sun and the moon
- The people will be righteous and posses the land forever
- God will do all of this to bring glory to Himself
- God will make these things happen
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Joshua 5 Isaiah 59
Joshua 5
- The kings of Ammorites and Canaanites melted when they heard God has dried up the Jordan so the Israelites could cross on dry land.
- God told Joshua to circumcise the people a second time with flint knives.
- How is possible to be circumcised a second time?
- All the males who came out of Egypt had died.
- The males born in the wilderness had not been circumcised
- God told the men in the wilderness that they would not see the promised land because they did not obey God.
- Joshua circumcised those who were born in the 40 years in the wilderness
- They stayed in Gilgal until all the men were healed.
- It was named Gilgal because God had "rolled away the reproach of Egypt" in them. Gilgal means to roll
- They celebrated the Passover in Gilgal.
- The day after Passover they ate food from the land and the manna ceased the next day.
- Joshua saw a man with a sword by Jericho and the man said he was the commander of the army of the Lord.
- Joshua fell on his face and worshipped.
- The commander of the Lord's army told Joshua to take off his sandals because the place was holy.
Isaiah 59
- God's hand is not shortened or ear dull, but iniquities have created a separation between me and God
- My sins have hidden God's face from me so he does not hear
- My hands and tongue are defiled with blood, iniquities, lies, and wickedness
- No one can go to the law justly or honestly
- They rely on empty pleas and conceive mischief
- They hatch viper eggs and spin webs
- Men cannot make clothes from spider's webs
- Their feet run toward evil and are quick to shed blood
- Desolation and destruction are their highways
- They do not know peace or justice
- That is why justice doesn't overtake us.
- That is why when we hope for light but get darkness and gloom
- That is why we grope like a blind man along a wall
- We hope for justice and salvation but we cannot find it.
- Our sins testify against us
- We know our transgressions and when we deny the Lord
- We speak revolt and conceive and utter lying words
- Righteousness stands far away
- Truth is lacking
- He who departs from evil makes himself a prey (What does this phrase mean?)
- God saw this an it displeased him that there was no one to intercede.
- God's own arm brought him salvation and His own righteousness upheld him.
- He put on breastplate of righteousness, helmet of salvation, garments of vengeance, and a cloak of zeal
- He will repay the evil deeds of his enemies.
- They will fear the name of the Lord from the west to the east.
- He will come like a rushing stream or the wind
- The Lord declares that a Redeemer will come to Zion to those in Zion who turn from transgression
- God makes this covenant, "My Spirit is upon you and my words will not depart from your mouth or your children's mouths from this time until forevermore"
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- The kings of Ammorites and Canaanites melted when they heard God has dried up the Jordan so the Israelites could cross on dry land.
- God told Joshua to circumcise the people a second time with flint knives.
- How is possible to be circumcised a second time?
- All the males who came out of Egypt had died.
- The males born in the wilderness had not been circumcised
- God told the men in the wilderness that they would not see the promised land because they did not obey God.
- Joshua circumcised those who were born in the 40 years in the wilderness
- They stayed in Gilgal until all the men were healed.
- It was named Gilgal because God had "rolled away the reproach of Egypt" in them. Gilgal means to roll
- They celebrated the Passover in Gilgal.
- The day after Passover they ate food from the land and the manna ceased the next day.
- Joshua saw a man with a sword by Jericho and the man said he was the commander of the army of the Lord.
- Joshua fell on his face and worshipped.
- The commander of the Lord's army told Joshua to take off his sandals because the place was holy.
Isaiah 59
- God's hand is not shortened or ear dull, but iniquities have created a separation between me and God
- My sins have hidden God's face from me so he does not hear
- My hands and tongue are defiled with blood, iniquities, lies, and wickedness
- No one can go to the law justly or honestly
- They rely on empty pleas and conceive mischief
- They hatch viper eggs and spin webs
- Men cannot make clothes from spider's webs
- Their feet run toward evil and are quick to shed blood
- Desolation and destruction are their highways
- They do not know peace or justice
- That is why justice doesn't overtake us.
- That is why when we hope for light but get darkness and gloom
- That is why we grope like a blind man along a wall
- We hope for justice and salvation but we cannot find it.
- Our sins testify against us
- We know our transgressions and when we deny the Lord
- We speak revolt and conceive and utter lying words
- Righteousness stands far away
- Truth is lacking
- He who departs from evil makes himself a prey (What does this phrase mean?)
- God saw this an it displeased him that there was no one to intercede.
- God's own arm brought him salvation and His own righteousness upheld him.
- He put on breastplate of righteousness, helmet of salvation, garments of vengeance, and a cloak of zeal
- He will repay the evil deeds of his enemies.
- They will fear the name of the Lord from the west to the east.
- He will come like a rushing stream or the wind
- The Lord declares that a Redeemer will come to Zion to those in Zion who turn from transgression
- God makes this covenant, "My Spirit is upon you and my words will not depart from your mouth or your children's mouths from this time until forevermore"
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