First Baptist Church, Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Devotional: Joshua 15:20-63

Today’s passage: Joshua 15:20-63

Helpful thoughts:

  • This is the largest area and most cities given to any tribe (There will be some overlapping with the other tribes due to boundary lines).
  • The list includes all cities given to Judah, but not all were taken.
    • The most info is given for those cities.
      • The cities of the Philistine people.
      • Jerusalem (Which David would eventually claim)

Questions to consider:

  1. What does the listing of cities and regions that Judah already possessed and cities and regions they did not yet possess imply?  What would have been expected to continue to happen?
  2. What consequences would come from the Philistines’ continued presence next to Israel?
  3. Did the Philistines (Or other nearby peoples) ever make Israel do anything wrong?  Why did Israel start chasing after other gods and practices (2 Kings 17:15)