Focus Chapters: Judges 1-2 Judges 3:1-30 Standout Verse(s): Judges 3:1-4 NLT These are the nations that the Lord left in the land to test those Israelites who had not experienced the wars of Canaan. He did this to teach warfare to generations of Israelites who had no experience in battle. These are the nations: the Philistines (those living…
Focus Chapters: Joshua 22-24 Standout Verse(s): THE ACTION Joshua 22:10 NLT But while they were still in Canaan, and when they came to a place called Geliloth near the Jordan River, the men of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh stopped to build a large and imposing altar. THE REACTION Joshua 22:11-13,…
Focus Chapters: Joshua 19:49-51 Joshua 20-21 1 Chronicles 6:54-81 Standout Verse(s): Joshua 21:45 NLT Not a single one of all the good promises the Lord had given to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; everything he had spoken came true. Observation (s): God fulfilled all the good promises that He had made to the…
Focus Chapters: Joshua 18 Joshua 19:1-48 Standout Verse(s): Joshua 18:1-3 NLT Now that the land was under Israelite control, the entire community of Israel gathered at Shiloh and set up the Tabernacle.But there remained seven tribes who had not yet been allotted their grants of land. Then Joshua asked them, “How long are you…
Focus Chapters: Joshua 15:20-63 Joshua 16-17 Standout Verse(s): Joshua 16:10, 17:12-13 NLT They did not drive the Canaanites out of Gezer, however, so the people of Gezer live as slaves among the people of Ephraim to this day. But the descendants of Manasseh were unable to occupy these towns because the Canaanites were determined…
Focus Chapters: Joshua 12:7-24 Joshua 13-14 Joshua 15:1-19 Standout Verse(s): Joshua 14:6-13 NLT A delegation from the tribe of Judah, led by Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, came to Joshua at Gilgal. Caleb said to Joshua, “Remember what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about you and me when we were at…
Focus Chapters: Joshua 10-11 Joshua 12:1-6 Standout Verse(s): THE ACTION Joshua 10:8, 12 NLT “Do not be afraid of them,” the Lord said to Joshua, “for I have given you victory over them. Not a single one of them will be able to stand up to you.” On the day the Lord gave the Israelites victory over the…
Focus Chapters: Joshua 7:1 1 Chronicles 2:7 Joshua 7:2-26 Joshua 8-9 Standout Verse(s): THE ACTION Joshua 9:3-6 NLT But when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, they resorted to deception to save themselves. They sent ambassadors to Joshua, loading their donkeys with weathered saddlebags and old, patched wineskins. They…
Focus Chapters: Joshua 3-6 Standout Verse(s): Joshua 4:4-7 NLT So Joshua called together the twelve men he had chosen—one from each of the tribes of Israel. He told them, “Go into the middle of the Jordan, in front of the Ark of the Lord your God. Each of you must pick up one stone and carry it…
Focus Chapters: Deuteronomy 33-34 Joshua 1-2 Standout Verse(s): Joshua 1:8 NLT Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. Observation (s): Joshua was told to study and…
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