For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you . . . they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until…
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Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left . . . Joshua 23:6 I know that I write about food a lot, which is probably repetitive to anyone reading,…
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And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered at Shiloh to make war against them. Joshua 22:12 A few years ago, my son tried to explain the phenomenon of internet Karen memes to me. If you’re unfamiliar, Karen is an internet slang term for a…
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Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your…
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Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there. And the LORD gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Joshua 21:43-44 Years ago, my family watched a futuristic movie, in…
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Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me. Joshua 18:4 I’ve long been interested in how I’m supposed to change my…
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So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?” Joshua 18:3 Years ago, while working in the ER, our hospital implemented a new electronic medical record, abandoning the old days of…
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You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only, but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though…
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So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said. Joshua 14:12 A certain…
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And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive . . . And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. Joshua…
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