Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Skip to content. Search for:. Home » QA. Add a comment Cancel reply. You may also like. Are Twins Good Luck? Do You Start Dying At 25? These chapters contain accounts of the division of the land of Canaan among the twelve tribes of Israel. The map of Canaan in Maps and Charts gives a clear picture of how the land was divided between the tribes.
Chapter 18 discusses the Levite cities commanded by Moses to be given to members of the tribe of Levi see Reading ; Numbers —27 , and chapter 20 lists the cities of refuge and their purpose. This chapter demonstrates the critical balance between true worship and apostate idolatry. Fortunately, the tribes showed that it was an act of legitimate worship and not idolatry. The tragedy is that in a short time Israel would no longer react strongly against idolatry.
The thirty-one Canaanite city-states destroyed by Joshua in his day were not all that the Lord intended to purge from Israel see Numbers —5. Since men tend to adopt the values or habits of those with whom they associate, it was imperative that all idolatrous nations in Canaan be destroyed. Joshua warned Israel of three things in the event that some heathen nations, including those that surrounded them, were allowed to remain: 1 beware of social intercourse with them see Joshua , 2 refrain from worshiping their false gods see vv.
Near the end of his life Joshua called his people together for a final blessing and warning, very much as Moses had done. Such messages should be considered very significant, for what a prophet says as he approaches death seems to be an effort on his part to rid his garments of the blood of the people by placing the full responsibility for their conduct squarely upon their shoulders see Jacob Joshua showed Israel exactly what God had miraculously done for them in the past and challenged them to choose whom they would serve.
Elder Erastus Snow, commenting on the feeling some have that being obedient to God somehow limits their agency, gave an interesting insight on choosing to follow God:. I leave you to answer this question in your own mind. To me, I think the angels and saints and all good people have exercised their agency by choosing the good and refusing the evil; and in doing so they not only exhibit their independence and manhood as much, but show a much higher and greater nobility of character and disposition; and I leave the future to determine who are wise in the choice of their freedom and independence.
But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And that if we can learn these principles, and receive them in good and honest hearts, and teach them as our faith, and practice them in our lives, we shall show our manhood, our independence and our agency as creditably before the angels and the Gods, as any wicked man can, in refusing the good and cleaving to the evil, exhibit his before the devil and his angels.
Most likely his body had been embalmed in the Egyptian manner. They resisted bitterly any attempt by others to settle on land they regarded as their own. But the Lord had given Canaan to the Israelites. It was theirs to hold if only they had the courage and strength to wrest it from the Canaanites and keep it safe from their enemies.
In the strength of God, Joshua and Israel became fearless. Nations trembled at the mention of their name. Courageously they swept over the land of Canaan, east and west of Jordan, and none could stop their conquering spirit—except themselves.
The Saints today also face a world intent on their spiritual destruction. Sometimes modern Israel may feel apprehensive as they see the impending judgments drawing closer and closer.
Modern Canaan will be destroyed in preparation for the establishment of a worldwide Zion, and this destruction is not pleasant to contemplate. Elder Ezra Taft Benson used two passages from the book of Joshua to counsel those who feel anxiety as they contemplate the future. Joshua answered that admonition in counsel to his people in these words:.
Latter-day Saints who live according to these two admonitions—trust in God and keep the commandments—have nothing to fear. First, the story shows the effect of individual sin on the whole community. No one sins in isolation. If we have lost power with God, we can know, as surely as we know the sun will rise on the morrow, that the problem lies within us and not within God. Joseph Smith was taught a similar lesson when the Church was deeply in debt.
Note how the Lord introduces a third element into the problem-solving process. Most of us look at problems in this way:. We think that the problem is something external, that is, if we can summon enough power, it can be solved through our own effort. But the Lord told Israel through both Joseph and Joshua that while there was an external problem, there was also an internal one that blocked the channels of true power.
Here is how the problem-solving process should work:. How could this lesson be applied in such modern situations as a wife with an inactive husband, a parent with wayward children, a child with unbelieving parents, a person struggling to overcome a bad habit?
How is this principle of power related to the principle taught in Ether ? Read carefully Moroni — Exodus 25—30; 35— The House of the Lord in the Wilderness. Deuteronomy 1— An Exhortation to Obedience, Part 1. Deuteronomy 17— An Exhortation to Obedience, Part 2.
Joshua 1— The Entry into the Promised Land. What was manna made of? Manna was almost certainly trehalose, a white crystalline carbohydrate made of two glucose molecules joined together. It is one of very few naturally occurring molecules that taste sweet, although it is only half as sweet as sugar. What did God provide for the Israelites in the desert?
Manna Hebrew:??? Where is Canaan today? The land known as Canaan was situated in the territory of the southern Levant, which today encompasses Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon. Where is the Ark of Covenant? The Hebrew Bible directed that the Ark of the Covenant be placed within a movable shrine known as the tabernacle. A curtain that prevented people from viewing the Ark of the Covenant was set up within the tabernacle and an altar and incense burners were placed in front of the curtain.
What desert did the Israelites wander in? In Sinai desert, no trace of Moses. Manna was almost certainly trehalose, a white crystalline carbohydrate made of two glucose molecules joined together. It is one of very few naturally occurring molecules that taste sweet, although it is only half as sweet as sugar.
The land known as Canaan was situated in the territory of the southern Levant, which today encompasses Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon. Christianity similarly uses forty to designate important time periods.
Before his temptation, Jesus fasted "forty days and forty nights" in the Judean desert Matthew , Mark , Luke Forty days was the period from the resurrection of Jesus to the ascension of Jesus Acts The Hebrew Bible directed that the Ark of the Covenant be placed within a movable shrine known as the tabernacle. A curtain that prevented people from viewing the Ark of the Covenant was set up within the tabernacle and an altar and incense burners were placed in front of the curtain.
Biblical account Joshua, the leader of the Israelites, sent two spies to Jericho , the first city of Canaan that they decided to conquer, and discovered that the land was in fear of them and their God.
The Israelites marched around the walls once every day for six days with the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant. The Israelites will have to remain in the wilderness for forty years , and Yahweh kills the spies through a plague except for the righteous Joshua and Caleb, who will be allowed to enter the promised land. In Numbers —16, and after the death of Moses, he led the Israelite tribes in the conquest of Canaan, and allocated the land to the tribes.
According to biblical chronology, Joshua lived some time in the Bronze Age.
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