Josué 9

Josué 9

Jensen's Survey of the NT - used by permission Paul J Bucknell - Biblical Foundations for Freedom LAND ALLOTMENTS (Joshua 13-21) Jensen's Survey of the NT - used by permission Jensen's Survey of the NT - used by permission Click charts to enlarge Charts from Jensen's Survey of the NT - used by permission JOSHUA A BOOK ON SPIRITUAL WARFARE and REST HOW TO POSSESS YOUR POSSESSIONS CONQUEST OF THE PROMISED LAND DIVISION OF THE PROMISED LAND CLOSE OF JOSHUA'S LIFE ACTION ALLOCATION APPEAL Josh 1:1-5:15 Josh 6:1-12:24 Joshua 13:1-21:45 Josh 22:1-24:33 WARLORDS IN CANAAN LANDLORDS IN CANAAN ENTERING CANAAN CONQUERING CANAAN DIVIDING CANAAN SECURING THE LAND SETTLING THE LAND Preparation Conquest Possession Consecration ca. 1 Month ca 7 Years ca. 18 Years See also more detailed Chart by Charles R Swindoll Joshua 9:1 Now it came about when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country and in the lowland and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, heard of it, all the kings: Jos 10:2-5,23,28-39 11:1-5,10,11 12:7-24 on this: Jos 1:15 3:17 5:1 22:4,7 De 4:49 of the great: Jos 1:4 15:12 23:4 Nu 34:6 Lebanon: Jos 11:17 12:7 13:5 De 3:25 Hittite: Jos 24:11 Ge 15:18-21 Ex 3:17 23:23,31 34:11 De 7:1 Joshua 9 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries A CONFEDERACY AND A COVER-UP Joshua 9-11 should be viewed in a sense as a unit, summarizing the conquest of the central, southern and finally the northern regions of the promised land. (See map summarizing the central, southern and northern campaigns) Dale Ralph Davis -Joshua 9–11 forms a fairly connected unit. We may briefly summarise it as follows: Israel without Yahweh, 9:1–27 Yahweh with Israel, 10:1–11:15 Southern campaign, 10:1–43 Setting, 10:1–5 Summary, 10:40–43 Northern campaign, 11:1–15 Setting, 11:1–5 Summary, 11:12–15 Summary, 11:16–23 (Joshua: No Falling Words) Don Anderson - Joshua and the armies have just had a great victory at Ai, and we left them reading the Word together between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal at the end of chap. 8. This seems to be the time when we are most vulnerable . With the victory goes vulnerability. Elijah certainly experienced this on Mount Carmel when, having had a great victory over the prophets of Baal, we find him in just a few short verses running for his life because of a threat by Jezebel. This ended the first part of the study "The Invasion of the Land." Beginning with chap. 6 we started on "The Subjection -of the Land." What is sad is that Joshua 8 ends with a review of the Law of Moses, with blessings and cursings, and yet in this chapter Israel seems to have become a forgettor of the word and not doer and as a resulting were self-deluded and sorely deceived (cf James 1:22). Such is the ever present danger of complacency, that feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements. Look out! A good title for this chapter might be "The Error of Walking By Sight." Wiersbe introduces this chapter - An anonymous wit reminds us that a dentist’s mistake is pulled out, a lawyer’s mistake is imprisoned, a teacher’s mistake is failed, a printer’s mistake is corrected, a pharmacist’s mistake is buried, a postman’s mistake is forwarded, and an electrician’s mistake could be shocking. The novelist Joseph Conrad wrote, “It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes.”In Joshua’s case, however, doing nothing was his mistake; and this chapter explains what happened. It records the three stages in his second failure (after Ai) in the conquest of the Promised Land. It also tells us how Joshua turned his mistake into a victory.(Be Strong - Joshua: Putting God's Power to Work in Your Life) Rod Mattoon - Joseph Conrad wrote, “It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes. In Joshua’s case, however, doing nothing was his mistake. Chapter nine records the stages of Joshua’s second failure and the error of walking by sight. It also records how Joshua turned his mistake into a victory. Ai is destroyed and the word spreads through the land. The kings unite to form an alliance against God’s people. Battles have been against individual cities and now the resistance is more intense. As you grow in your Christian life, you will find that spiritual battles become more intense. Your temptations will become more severe. Satan does not give up easy. Sometimes we tend to be overconfident and neglect God’s direction in our life. (Treasures From Joshua) In this chapter we see a description of two different strategies the pagans planned against Israel, a confederacy by one group of kings (Joshua 9:1-2) and a cover-up by the Gibeonites/Hivittes (Joshua 9:3-27). Thus a good title of this chapter would be complacency, confederacy and coverup. Hess comments - “The following chapters introduce the transition from a victorious people of God whose occupation of the land could have been the relatively simple matter of defeating those already discouraged to an unending history of battle, bloodshed, and idolatry that would haunt Israel throughout its history. As in the opening chapters of Genesis, so also in the opening chapters of Israel’s dwelling in the Promised Land, a single transgression has cosmic ramifications.” (Joshua: An Introduction and Commentary) One could subtitle this chapter "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!" In other words, If you can't defeat your opponent, then you might as well work alongside them. This proved to be exactly what the Gibeonites would do (Joshua 9:8,9), even though their methods are less than laudable. This was not the first time the Second Generation had been duped by the pagans. However the first time had much more tragic consequences for Israel as recorded in Numbers 25:1-4,9+ While Israel remained at Shittim (INTERESTING THAT THIS IS WHERE THEY WERE JUST BEFORE CROSSING THE JORDAN RIVER!), the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab. For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry against Israel. 4 The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.”....9 Those who died by the plague were 24,000 (THE MIDIANITES ALSO WERE PUNISHED). Now it came about when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country and in the lowland and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon - This describes the kings of the southern portion of the Promised Land who seek to form a confederacy against Israel. Although the text does not state specifically, undoubtedly these kings normally were not "buddy, buddy," but now that they were faced with annihilation, they came together. In short, they were proving true an ancient proverb that says "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." (cf Ps. 2:1–2; Luke 23:12).