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Devotional: Joshua 16:1-10

Today’s passage: Joshua 16:1-10

Helpful thoughts:

  • Chapters 16 and 17 will detail the land given to the tribes of Ephraim (16) and Manasseh (17), the sons of Joseph.
  • Ephraim also did not drive out all of the Canaanites.  The Israelites had been instructed to only accept labor from the people in the land if there was a peaceable agreement (Deuteronomy 20:11) such as the Gibeonites.  This however was forced.  Ephraim was being disobedient to God in turning the Canaanites in Gezer into forced labor.
  • The city of Gezer would eventually fall during the reign of Solomon, but in a very ironic way (1 Kings 9:16).

Questions to consider:

  1. How might the end of verse 10 have looked like a victory for Ephraim?  Why was it not victory at all?
  2. How would the people of Ephraim have been able to rightly discern what the right thing was to do?
  3. How can we as Christians keep our perspective in alignment with the Lord’s when we measure our “successes” or “failures” in the midst of this world?

July 10, 2019 Category: Devotions, Joshua

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