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Joshua Introduction

The Book of Joshua

Joshua records the consummation of the redemption of Israel of Israel out of Egypt; for redemption has two parts: "out," and "into" (Deuteronomy 6:23). The key-phrase is "Moses My servant is dead" (Joshua 1:2). Law, of which Moses is the representative, could never give a sinful people victory (Hebrews 7:19; Romans 6:14; 8:2-4).

In a spiritual sense the book of Joshua is the Ephesians of the Old Testament. "The heavenly" of Ephesians is to the Christian what Canaan was to the Israelite—a place of conflict, and therefore not a type of heaven, but also a place of victory and blessing through divine power (Joshua 21:43-45; Ephesians 1:3).

The government, as before, was theocratic; Joshua succeeding Moses as the ruler under God.

Joshua falls into four parts:

  1. The conquest, Jos 1 - Jos 12.
  2. The partition of the inheritance, Jos 13 - Jos 21.
  3. Incipient discord, Jos 22.
  4. Joshua's last counsels and death, Jos 23; 24.

The events recorded in Joshua cover a period of 26 years (Ussher).

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