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Joshua Study Booklet Old Testament Exploring the Old Testament Joshua Study Guide Fox Valley Church of Christ Joshua 1:1-24 Dig deeper With the death of Moses, the transition of responsibility is a smooth one. What is unique about this transfer, for this time in history, is that there are no challengers to Joshua’s authority and that power was not passed down to one of Moses’ sons. This stresses the fact that God is the one with the real power in Israel. Although Moses was a great leader and led the Israelites out of Egypt and back into God’s presence, It will be Joshua who will actually take them into the Day 1 promised land. We will see a similar thing in Jesus’ day when John will lead his followers in the wilderness and point the way to the goal, but it will be Jesus (whose name in Hebrew was the same as Joshua’s) who will actually accomplish 1 After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD the final salvation of His people. said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' aide: 2 "Moses my servant is Again, the Israelites are told that the land is theirs to take; every place they set foot dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the is theirs, God tells them. What is unfortunate is that God had given this same Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the promise many years earlier, but due to the disobedience of the Israelites, they Israelites. 3 I will give you every place where you set your foot, would not take hold of this promise until they had spent 40 total years in the desert. as I promised Moses. 4 Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the In verses 7-9 Joshua is given words of encouragement and prophetic charge Hittite country—to the Great Sea on the west. 5 No one will be similar to other biblical leaders (see Ezek. 2:6-7; 3:9; Jer. 1:17-19). Joshua is able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was called upon to, above all else, value the law of the Lord (see Psalm 1 for similar with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor ideas). forsake you. In verses 10-11, Joshua gathers together his officers and informs them that they 6 "Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these are about to go take possession of the land God has given them. This will be no people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give easy task, yet in verses 16-18 we are told that their response is to stand them. 7 Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all wholeheartedly behind Joshua. They recognize that God is with Joshua as he was the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the Moses, and as long as that remains the case, they will continue to stand behind right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. him. 8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and DISCOVER courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." 1. The Israelites are preparing to cross the Jordan river but what river have they already crossed? What was unique about that river crossing? 10 So Joshua ordered the officers of the people: 11 "Go through the camp and tell the people, 'Get your supplies ready. 2. What two things does God tell Joshua (3 times in verses 6-9) that he needs Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and to be in order to lead God’s people? Why are those 2 traits important? take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own.' " 3. What does Joshua tell his officers they will do in three days? 12 But to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said, 13 "Remember the command that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: 'The LORD your God is 4. What was the response of Joshua’s men to the news that they were about to giving you rest and has granted you this land.' 14 Your wives, move out? your children and your livestock may stay in the land that Moses gave you east of the Jordan, but all your fighting men, fully armed, must cross over ahead of your brothers. You are to help your brothers 15 until the LORD gives them rest, as he has done for you, and until they too have taken possession of the land that Display the LORD your God is giving them. After that, you may go back and occupy your own land, which Moses the servant of the God’s direction for His people was to take possession of the land that He had LORD gave you east of the Jordan toward the sunrise." prepared for them, yet the way will be difficult and will require much discipline and hard work on their part. Although God doesn’t call us to any specific geographical location, He does call us to take possession of a life in Christ. If 16 Then they answered Joshua, "Whatever you have you’re a pre-teen, you probably have not yet entered into that life, but are you commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. willing to begin your journey with the same obedience and resolve that we see in 17 Just as we fully obeyed Moses, so we will obey you. Only may the Israelite officers at this point? the LORD your God be with you as he was with Moses. 18 Whoever rebels against your word and does not obey your words, whatever you may command them, will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous!" Joshua 2:1-24 Dig deeper Presumably, during the three days when the Israelites were preparing, Joshua sends two spies into Jericho. They find the house of Rahab, a prostitute. The King of Jericho knows they are there and is obviously worried about Israel’s presence, yet he shows a great deal of respect for her by taking her at her word that the two men had left. She, in fact, has hidden them and they are able to escape. Before they leave, though, Rahab makes a deal that will save not just her but also her Day 2 family, so a plan is set up to make this happen. Why would Rahab do this and betray her own town? The answer is simple, she has heard of what Yahweh (God’s personal name that is always shown as LORD in the O.T.) has done for R Israel at the Red Sea and with the two Amorite kings. It’s more than just fear, 1 Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. "Go, though. Rahab recognizes that Yahweh is look over the land," he said, "especially Jericho." So they went and . This a remarkable recognition for a non-Jew. She doesn’t just fear the entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. Israelite army, and so is making a deal to save her own neck. Rahab realizes that 2 The king of Jericho was told, "Look! Some of the Israelites have come Yahweh is the one, true God. This shows that God can use anyone to do great here tonight to spy out the land." 3 So the king of Jericho sent this things for Him, as this former prostitute is held up in the New Testament as one message to Rahab: "Bring out the men who came to you and entered of the great heroes from the Old Testament who acted on her faith (Heb. your house, because they have come to spy out the whole land." 11:30-31; James 2:25) and will be in the line of ancestors of Jesus (Matt. 1:5). 4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, An incredible confirmation of this ancient biblical account has come from the "Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come world of archaeology. From this account in Joshua and archaeology of ancient from. 5 At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, the men left. I Jericho, we know that the city had a main city wall and an inner city wall. Rahab don't know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch lived between these two walls (as verse 15 literally says that she lived ‘in the city up with them." 6 (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden wall.) German excavations in 1907-1909 revealed that a part of the lower city them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.) 7 So the men wall of Jericho did not fall as it did everywhere else. The section that was still set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the standing had houses built against it that were still intact.
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