joshua 8 & Isaiah 62

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.