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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:55 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Friday March 6 > Joshua 10-12 (The Message) > > Joshua 10 > > The Five Kings > 1-2 It wasn't long before My-Master-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that > Joshua had taken Ai and > destroyed it and its king under a holy curse, just as he > had done to Jericho and its king. He also learned that the people of > Gibeon had come to terms with > Israel and were living as neighbors. He and his people > were alarmed: Gibeon was a big city-as big as any with a king and bigger > than Ai-and all its men > were seasoned fighters. > > 3-4 Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram > king of Jarmuth, Japhia > king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon: "Come and > help me. Let's attack Gibeon; they've joined up with Joshua and the People > of Israel." > > 5 So the five Amorite (Western) kings-the king of Jerusalem, the king of > Hebron, the king of > Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon-combined > their armies and set out to attack Gibeon. > > 6 The men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua camped at Gilgal, "Don't let us > down now! Come up here > quickly! Save us! Help us! All the Amorite kings who live > up in the hills have ganged up on us." > > 7-8 So Joshua set out from Gilgal, his whole army with him-all those tough > soldiers! God told him, > "Don't give them a second thought. I've put them under > your thumb-not one of them will stand up to you." > > 9-11 Joshua marched all night from Gilgal and took them by total surprise. > God threw them into > total confusion before Israel, a major victory at Gibeon. > Israel chased them along the ridge to Beth Horon and fought them all the > way down to Azekah and > Makkedah. As they ran from the People of Israel, down from > the Beth Horon ridge and all the way to Azekah, God pitched huge stones on > them out of the sky and > many died. More died from the hailstones than the People > of Israel killed with the sword. > > 12-13 The day God gave the Amorites up to Israel, Joshua spoke to God, > with all Israel listening: > "Stop, Sun, over Gibeon; > Halt, Moon, over Aijalon Valley." > And Sun stopped, > Moon stood stock still > Until he defeated his enemies. > > 13-14 (You can find this written in the Book of Jashar.) The sun stopped > in its tracks in mid sky; > just sat there all day. There's never been a day like > that before or since-God took orders from a human voice! Truly, God fought > for Israel. > > 15 Then Joshua returned, all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. > > 16-17 Meanwhile the five kings had hidden in the cave at Makkedah. Joshua > was told, "The five kings > have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah." > > 18-19 Joshua said, "Roll big stones against the mouth of the cave and post > guards to keep watch. > But don't you hang around-go after your enemies. Cut off > their retreat. Don't let them back into their cities. God has given them > to you." > > 20-21 Joshua and the People of Israel then finished them off, total > devastation. Only a few got > away to the fortified towns. The whole army then returned > intact to the camp and to Joshua at Makkedah. There was no criticism that > day from the People of > Israel! > > 22 Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave and bring me those five > kings." > > 23 They did it. They brought him the five kings from the cave: the king of > Jerusalem, the king of > Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and > the king of Eglon. > > 24 When they had them all there in front of Joshua, he called up the army > and told the field > commanders who had been with him, "Come here. Put your feet > on the necks of these kings." > > They stepped up and put their feet on their necks. > > 25 Joshua told them, "Don't hold back. Don't be timid. Be strong! Be > confident! This is what God > will do to all your enemies when you fight them." > > 26-27 Then Joshua struck and killed the kings. He hung them on five trees > where they remained until > evening. At sunset Joshua gave the command. They took > them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had > hidden. They put large stones > at the mouth of the cave. The kings are still in there. > > No Survivors > 28 That same day Joshua captured Makkedah, a massacre that included the > king. He carried out the > holy curse. No survivors. Makkedah's king got the same > treatment as Jericho's king. > > 29-30 Joshua, all Israel with him, moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and > fought against Libnah. God > gave Libnah to Israel. They captured city and king and > massacred the lot. No survivors. Libnah's king got the same treatment as > Jericho's king. > > 31-32 Joshua, all Israel with him, moved on from Libnah to Lachish. He set > up camp nearby and > attacked. God gave Lachish to Israel. Israel took it in two > days and killed everyone. He carried out the holy curse, the same as with > Libnah. > > 33 Horam, king of Gezer, arrived to help Lachish. Joshua attacked him and > his army until there was > nothing left of them. No survivors. > > 34-35 Joshua, all Israel with him, moved on from Lachish to Eglon. They > set up camp and attacked. > They captured it and killed everyone, carrying out the > holy curse, the same as they had done with Lachish. > > 36-37 Joshua, all Israel with him, went up from Eglon to Hebron. He > attacked and captured it. They > killed everyone, including its king, its villages, and > their people. No survivors, the same as with Eglon. They carried out the > holy curse on city and > people. > > 38-39 Then Joshua, all Israel with him, turned toward Debir and attacked > it. He captured it, its > king, and its villages. They killed everyone. They put > everyone and everything under the holy curse. No survivors. Debir and its > king got the same > treatment as Hebron and its king, and Libnah and its king. > > 40-42 Joshua took the whole country: hills, desert, foothills, and > mountain slopes, including all > kings. He left no survivors. He carried out the holy curse > on everything that breathed, just as God, the God of Israel, had > commanded. Joshua's conquest > stretched from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza and from the entire > region of Goshen to Gibeon. Joshua took all these kings and their lands in > a single campaign because > God, the God of Israel, fought for Israel. > > 43 Then Joshua, all Israel with him, went back to the camp at Gilgal. > > Joshua 11 > 1-3When Jabin king of Hazor heard of all this, he sent word to Jobab king > of Madon; to the king of > Shimron; to the king of Acshaph; to all the kings in > the northern mountains; to the kings in the valley south of Kinnereth; to > the kings in the western > foothills and Naphoth Dor; to the Canaanites both east > and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill > country; and to the > Hivites below Hermon in the region of Mizpah. > > 4-5 They came out in full force, all their troops massed together-a huge > army, in number like sand > on an ocean beach-to say nothing of all the horses and > chariots. All these kings met and set up camp together at the Waters of > Merom, ready to fight > against Israel. > > 6 God said to Joshua: "Don't worry about them. This time tomorrow I'll > hand them over to Israel, > all dead. You'll hamstring their horses. You'll set fire > to their chariots." > > 7-9 Joshua, his entire army with him, took them by surprise, falling on > them at the Waters of > Merom. God gave them to Israel, who struck and chased them > all the way to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim, and then to the Valley > of Mizpah on the east. No > survivors. Joshua treated them following God's instructions: > he hamstrung their horses; he burned up their chariots. > > 10-11 Then Joshua came back and took Hazor, killing its king. Early on > Hazor had been head of all > these kingdoms. They killed every person there, carrying > out the holy curse-not a breath of life left anywhere. Then he burned down > Hazor. > > 12-14 Joshua captured and massacred all the royal towns with their kings, > the holy curse commanded > by Moses the servant of God. But Israel didn't burn > the cities that were built on mounds, except for Hazor-Joshua did burn > down Hazor. The People of > Israel plundered all the loot, including the cattle, from > these towns for themselves. But they killed the people-total destruction. > They left nothing human > that breathed. > > 15 Just as God commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and > Joshua did it. He didn't > leave incomplete one thing that God had commanded Moses. > > 16-20 Joshua took the whole country: the mountains, the southern desert, > all of Goshen, the > foothills, the valley (the Arabah), and the Israel mountains > with their foothills, from Mount Halak, which towers over the region of > Seir, all the way to Baal > Gad in the Valley of Lebanon in the shadows of Mount > Hermon. He captured their kings and then killed them. Joshua fought > against these kings for a long > time. Not one town made peace with the People of Israel, > with the one exception of the Hivites who lived in Gibeon. Israel fought > and took all the rest. It > was God's idea that they all would stubbornly fight > the Israelites so he could put them under the holy curse without mercy. > That way he could destroy > them just as God had commanded Moses. > > 21-22 Joshua came out at that time also to root out the Anakim from the > hills, from Hebron, from > Debir, from Anab, from the mountains of Judah, from the > mountains of Israel. Joshua carried out the holy curse on them and their > cities. No Anakim were left > in the land of the People of Israel, except in Gaza, > Gath, and Ashdod-there were a few left there. > > 23 Joshua took the whole region. He did everything that God had told > Moses. Then he parceled it out > as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribes. > > And Israel had rest from war. > > Joshua 12 > > The Defeated Kings > 1These are the kings that the People of Israel defeated and whose land > they took on the east of the > Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon, with > the whole eastern side of the Arabah Valley. > > 2-3 Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned from Heshbon: His rule > extended from Aroer, which sits > at the edge of the Arnon Gorge, from the middle of the > gorge and over half of Gilead to the Gorge of the Jabbok River, which is > the border of the > Ammonites. His rule included the eastern Arabah Valley from > the Sea of Kinnereth to the Arabah Sea (the Salt Sea), eastward toward > Beth Jeshimoth and southward > to the slopes of Pisgah. > > 4-5 And Og king of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaim who reigned from > Ashtaroth and Edrei: His > rule extended from Mount Hermon and Salecah over the > whole of Bashan to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites (the > other half of Gilead) to > the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. > > 6 Moses the servant of God and the People of Israel defeated them. And > Moses the servant of God > gave this land as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the > Gadites, and half of the tribe of Manasseh. > > 7-24 And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the People of > Israel defeated in the > country west of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of > Lebanon south to Mount Halak, which towers over Seir. Joshua gave this > land to the tribes of Israel > as a possession, according to their divisions: lands > in the mountains, the western foothills, and the Arabah Valley, on the > slopes, and in the wilderness > and the Negev desert (lands on which Hittites, Amorites > and Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites had lived). The kings > were: > > The king of Jericho one The king of Ai (near Bethel) one The king of > Jerusalem one The king of > Hebron one The king of Jarmuth one The king of Lachish > one The king of Eglon one The king of Gezer one The king of Debir one The > king of Geder one The king > of Hormah one The king of Arad one The king of Libnah > one The king of Adullam one The king of Makkedah one The king of Bethel > one The king of Tappuah one > The king of Hepher one The king of Aphek one The king > of Lasharon one The king of Madon one The king of Hazor one The king of > Shimron Meron one The king > of Acshaph one The king of Taanach one The king of Megiddo > one The king of Kedesh one The king of Jokneam in Carmel one The king of > Dor (Naphoth Dor) one The > king of Goyim in Gilgal one The king of Tirzah one A > total of thirty-one kings. > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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