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Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike.

And I'm Bryce.

And today we're going to be covering the book of Joshua, which is the story of when the Israelites finally make it to the promised land.

After 40 years in the Willerness, in this text, the book of Joshua, we're going to see another miraculous water crossing.

They're going to be crossing the River Jordan on dry ground, and they come into the land of Canaan.

To commemorate this, they're going to place 12 stones to help them to remember this long promised day. And when they do

this and they come in the land of Canaan, we'll read about the manna ceasing. They're going to have to

take care of themselves now. The main theme of the book of Joshua is conquest. How Joshua's

people unleash violence upon those that are different than they are.

And because they're God's chosen people, they are told to wipe out everyone in the land.

Essentially, the whole book of Joshua is a lot of killing.

We will see the surrounding of the city of Jericho and the walls of Jericho coming down in this book.

Chapter 11 says that they conquer the whole

land, destroying many cities. Now, this is complicated because the book of Joshua will then say later

that they didn't conquer the whole land. And so there are these conflicting accounts in the book of

Joshua as to what happened. Did they or did they not conquer the place? Did they or did they not

cast out the people that were not like them?

Chapters 13 through 21, the land is divided among the tribes. They then set up the tabernacle at a place called Shiloh.

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