Hey, this is Shelby and Scott.

You're listening to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

And today is our final day in the book of Joshua.

We've said it multiple times throughout this book.

This is a book of highs and this is a book of lows.

But we are wrapping it up today.

So we want to talk about these final few chapters of Joshua, chapters 22 through 24,

and then also just kind of our overall takeaways from Joshua as a whole.

Let's start with chapters 22 through 24.

What's happening in these chapters, Scott?

So I love how chapter 21 ends on this beautiful note about God's been faithful to keep his promises, how the Israelites are now at rest in the land.

And then in chapter 22, we have this like near civil war breakout among the tribes.

It's just very, very jarring.

But, you know, to really appreciate what's happening these chapters, again,

we've said so many times in Deuteronomy and in Joshua, but there's just been a huge emphasis

throughout this section of scripture on Israel being faithful to God when they're in the land.

And these last three chapters are functioning pretty much along the same lines.

Like, if there's a thread that unites these last chapters, it's the importance

of obedience now that they're settling into the land. And that's why the Western tribes

freak out, though, at the Eastern tribes, when they construct this tabernacle, and they're like,

what are you doing? You can only sacrifice at one altar, like, you know, which at this point is

in the city of Shiloh. But as the Eastern tribes explained,

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