Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

We wrapped up the five books of the law yesterday and we've already hit one of the wisdom books

when we read Job.

Today we step into the first of the history books.

As we read through these, remember that their goal isn't so much to reveal history as it

is to reveal God, so keep looking for Him.

Today Moses died after 40 years of leading the Israelites through the wilderness.

This was probably around 1400 BC, which is roughly 2500 years after he first met Adam

and Eve.

Before Moses dies, he passes the torch to his assistant Joshua, the man God appointed

to lead the people into the promised land.

Joshua was from the tribe of Ephraim, which was the smallest non-leavite tribe at this

point, so it's a pretty big deal that he gets this role.

Both God and the Israelites tell Joshua to be strong and courageous.

He hears that four times in one chapter alone, three times from God and once from the people.

He heard it from above and from below, from his leader and from his followers.

It's already a big deal when God repeats Himself, but when everyone around you is also

telling you the same thing, you know it's something you need to hear.

As they prepare to head into Canaan, Joshua reminds the 2.5 Trans-Jordan tribes, Gad,

Ruben and the Half Tribe of Vanessa, that they still have to cross the Jordan and fight

for the land like all the other tribes.

Then they can come back east and live in the pasture lands they requested from God back

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