Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption,

and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Hey everybody, welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. My name is Jenny,

and today we are talking about Joshua 16 through 18. Yesterday, we saw how God delivered

the rest of the promised land to the Israelites, and they began the process of dividing the

land among the twelve tribes. Now, in Joshua 16 through 18, we see that the Israelites

continue to divide the land and draw boundary lines. In these chapters, we will also witness

a beautiful picture of how God dwells with His people, despite their unfaithfulness.

But before we can get into the picture of God dwelling with His people, we first see

how they continue in their disobedience to God, despite the fact that He has always been

faithful to them. In chapter 16, the Israelites still aren't faithful to God's instructions

to drive out those who currently occupy the land. In this case, they fail to drive out

the Canaanites, and instead make them slaves and allow them to continue to live in the

land. However, their disobedience has earthly consequences, like we talked about yesterday,

and the Israelites eventually begin to worship false gods because of their decision to

not force the Canaanites to leave. But Israelites and faithfulness is interrupted by a peaceful

scene where the Tabernacle, God's dwelling place, is set up for the first time in the promised

land. Here, they place the Tabernacle in Shiloh as a reminder that God has fulfilled

His promise to Abraham to deliver this land to them. This shows that even when the Israelites

are unfaithful, He is faithful and desires to make a dwelling among us. The reminder of God's

faithfulness continues in chapter 18 when Joshua reminds the seven tribes who have not yet taken

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