Today is the 16th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful

to be here with you today as we greet a brand new shiny week. It is how here in front

of us friends. Here we are sitting around the global campfire looking out over this brand

of the world.

It is all clean and pretty. It is all out there. Nothing has really happened yet. We haven't

lived it yet. We will tell the story of this week by writing it with our lives, with our

thoughts and our words and our deeds. So we are doing well to center ourselves in the

scriptures and take the next step forward into this week together. And our next step will

lead us back into the book of Joshua. We have seen twice now that a bunch of kings allied

themselves together to attack Israel only to be defeated. This is how most of the conquest

of the Promised Land happened. Armies gathered together to eradicate Israel and then were unsuccessful

Israel thereby taking over the land. So we will read from the new international version

this week and pick up the story where we left off. Joshua, chapters 13 and 14 today.

When Joshua had grown old, the lords said to him, you are now very old. And there are still

very large areas of land to be taken over. This is the land that remains. All the regions

of the Philistines and Gusharites, from the Shaihoor River on the east of Egypt to the territory

of Ekran on the north. All of it counted as Canaanite, though held by the five Philistine

rulers in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkolan, Gath and Ekran. The territory of the Avites on the south,

all the land of the Canaanites from Arah of the Siddonians as far as Afeq and the border of

the Amarites, the areas of Biblos and all Lebanon to the east from Bale-Gad below Mount

Herman to Dibo-Hamaab. As for the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to

Mizrifot Maim, that is, all the Siddonians, I myself will drive them out before the Israelites.

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