Inquire of the Lord (4 of 5)
Series: Joshua
Tim Melton
Joshua 9
In Joshua chapter 9 we continue following Joshua and Israel during their early days in the Promised Land. Already God had helped them miraculously cross the Jordan River. God had helped them to defeat the feared, walled city of Jericho. Once their sin was removed from the camp God helped them defeat the small city of Ai.
When the surrounding kings heard of all that God was doing for Israel they planned to come together to fight against Israel. This included all of the surrounding cities except for one. The leaders of Gibeon came up with another plan.
They dressed several men like they had traveled from a distant land. With dry, moldy bread in their bags, burst wineskins and worn out clothes they arrived at the camp of Israel. They told of how they had traveled from far away, how they had heard of the works of Yahweh and how they wanted to make a covenant, a peace treaty, with Israel. At first the leaders of Israel were suspicious. What if they were really from a city in Canaan? After hearing their story and seeing how they looked they finally agreed to make a covenant with them. Three days later, Joshua and his leaders found out that they had been deceived. The men were from the nearby city of Gibeon. Because Israel was a people of their word, they could now not destroy the people of Gibeon. They would even have to help them if they were attacked by others.
God had instructed them to devote to destruction all the pagan peoples of Canaan, but now there would still be a root of temptation left in the land, a pagan people who could lead them astray.
The discouraging part of the story is that in Joshua 9:14, while they were deciding whether to make the peace treaty with the foreigners or not, we read, ''But (they) did not ask the counsel of the LORD.'' It was a huge decision. They trusted what they heard, what they saw and what they thought but they did not ''Inquire of God.'' It was ...
Series: Joshua
Tim Melton
Joshua 9
In Joshua chapter 9 we continue following Joshua and Israel during their early days in the Promised Land. Already God had helped them miraculously cross the Jordan River. God had helped them to defeat the feared, walled city of Jericho. Once their sin was removed from the camp God helped them defeat the small city of Ai.
When the surrounding kings heard of all that God was doing for Israel they planned to come together to fight against Israel. This included all of the surrounding cities except for one. The leaders of Gibeon came up with another plan.
They dressed several men like they had traveled from a distant land. With dry, moldy bread in their bags, burst wineskins and worn out clothes they arrived at the camp of Israel. They told of how they had traveled from far away, how they had heard of the works of Yahweh and how they wanted to make a covenant, a peace treaty, with Israel. At first the leaders of Israel were suspicious. What if they were really from a city in Canaan? After hearing their story and seeing how they looked they finally agreed to make a covenant with them. Three days later, Joshua and his leaders found out that they had been deceived. The men were from the nearby city of Gibeon. Because Israel was a people of their word, they could now not destroy the people of Gibeon. They would even have to help them if they were attacked by others.
God had instructed them to devote to destruction all the pagan peoples of Canaan, but now there would still be a root of temptation left in the land, a pagan people who could lead them astray.
The discouraging part of the story is that in Joshua 9:14, while they were deciding whether to make the peace treaty with the foreigners or not, we read, ''But (they) did not ask the counsel of the LORD.'' It was a huge decision. They trusted what they heard, what they saw and what they thought but they did not ''Inquire of God.'' It was ...
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