Canaan

was commanded by God to save them, so he did. Moses, of course, did other important things, such as receiving the Ten Commandments and then asking for forgiveness for those who broke the Commandments by idolizing a golden calf, return the people to Canaan, and bless people before he died in the end. All of which made him an important…

Introduction According to David Howard, “Joshua was written to provide an interpretive history of one slice of Israel’s life as a people.” This “slice of life” Old Testament narrative begins in Joshua 1:1-9 with an authoritative call to be strong, courageous and obedient. This passage serves to outline and prepare the reader for the body of work to follow. At the core, Joshua is a story of radical obedience to God and His law. Within the opening verses there is also a great promise for those…

invaded and conquered all of the other existing nations and tribes living in Canaan in order to fullfill the promise, in Genesis 12:6-7, made by God to Abraham that the Israelites would inherit Canaan. At the time of the biblical Conquest of Canaan it included what today is Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, a northwestern part of Jordan and a southwestern portion of Syria. As described in the Old Testament, the Conquest of Canaan by Moses and the Israelites, followed by Joshua and the Israelites…

God chose a man named Abraham to help with this next journey. Once Abraham joined the covenant with God, God called to him and led Abraham away from his family and land he knew, to the land of Canaan. In order to convince Abraham to work with God, He created a covenant and promised to bless Abraham, create a nation out of him, and one day bless all of the ethnics of the world. God trusted God’s promises and through the righteousness of Abraham…

Any rich story weaves in symbolism and foreshadowing. This enhances the meaning of the narrative, gives the audience clues to the future, and sets the stage for multiple themes. The drama of the Bible checks all of these boxes and then some. Although there are many characters in the first formative years of Israel’s existence, the character of Joshua, leads Israel into a temporary Promised Land, which foreshadows the role that Jesus plays in the unfolding narrative. Joshua was critical to the…

In the book of Genesis and Exodus God makes covenants with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses in return for obedience of his commands. God promised blessings that consisted of acquiring Promised Land, building a great nation and having children to fulfill his perfect plan. The Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants are affirmed and re-affirmed on a continued basis but the promises take years to be executed. While Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses obey God’s commands, they are almost never enriched with…

The biblical passages Exodus 23:23-33 and Deuteronomy 20:10-20 illustrates God’s plan for the Israelites. These two passages share an overall purpose of emphasizing what is to be done with the non-Israelites who inhabit the land of Canaan (Exod 23:33 and Deut 10:20). This paper will discuss the various similarities and differences between these two passages by exploring how God is depicted and the immerging themes that are present throughout both these passages. To begin with, the language…

tribes were known to be the tribe of Manasseh and Ephraim (Genesis 13:8, 11). These tribes became leaders among the Hebrews and Jewish communities. Moses was able to select two people from each tribe of the Egyptian sons of Joseph to spy the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:1-2,8,11,16). Manasseh was given his father's place, he took over the tribe of Joseph which was among the twelve tribes of Israel (Numbers 13:11). Both the Egyptian tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim were sealed during the millennium…

command of the Israelites. After forty years of wandering through the desert, the Israelites finally have their opportunity to enter into the promise land. Canaan is a land consisting of many hostile groups that really seem to have it out for the Israelites. Jericho was the first city that the Israelites destroyed in order to start their conquest of Canaan. J.D Douglas states that Jericho’s “strategic site by a ford of the Jordan controlled the ancient trade routes from the East” (Douglas 718).…

Etiological understandings of famine in the bible justify the presence of famine in the modern setting and often delay efforts to rectify the issue. The bible has been one of the most influential books throughout history due to the Christian fellowship’s infallible commitment to their faith. The bible is used as a tool to teach Christians a standard of living a good and ethical life. Story telling is one of the most infamous ways of teaching these essential life lessons, because when the bible…