Joshua 12-14 Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me …
Author Archives: John S.
March 6 / Joshua 9-11
Joshua 9-11 Today’s reading covers the bulk of Israel’s conquest of the Promised Land. With Jericho and Ai in hand, Joshua moves on to further territory. But the people of Gibeon (and neighboring towns — a bit north-northwest of Jerusalem) recognize the coming destruction and preemptively undertake a deceptive plan to make peace, claiming to …
March 5 / Joshua 6-8
Joshua 6-8 Achan … took some of the devoted things … and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men… Joshua 7:1b,5a One man sins, and thirty-six other men die. All the spoil from Jericho is to be devoted to the LORD: metal objects are to go into the treasury of the LORD, …
March 4 / Joshua 1-5
Joshua 1-5 The Promised Land! At long last. Forty years after he first spied out the land and urged the people of Israel to trust the LORD to give it to them, Joshua now leads a new generation into that land, the land the LORD promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Joshua sends two (not …
March 3 / Deuteronomy 33-34; Psalm 90
Deuteronomy 33-34; Psalm 90 Today Moses comes to the end of his (earthly) journey, and we bid him farewell. We know him as a prophet, the man of God, the law giver, the servant of the LORD. He is inseparable from the Exodus, the parting of the Red Sea, the giving of the Ten Commandments, …
March 2 / Deuteronomy 30-32
Deuteronomy 30-32 You might recall that on February 6 I said we should remember Leviticus 26 as we move forward through the Scriptures. Our readings yesterday and today echo the same message, with blessings for following the LORD and curses for turning away from Him. Let’s keep these blessings and curses in mind as we …
March 1 / Deuteronomy 28-29
Deuteronomy 28-29 And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey …
March 2023 Readings
Date Reading(s) Verses 01-Mar Deuteronomy 28-29 97 02-Mar Deuteronomy 30-32 102 03-Mar Deuteronomy 33-34; Psalm 90 58 04-Mar Joshua 1-5 98 05-Mar Joshua 6-8 88 06-Mar Joshua 9-11 93 07-Mar Joshua 12-14 72 08-Mar Joshua 15-17 91 09-Mar Joshua 18-19 79 10-Mar Joshua 20-22 88 11-Mar Joshua 23-24 49 12-Mar Judges 1-3:6 65 13-Mar Judges …
February 28 / Deuteronomy 24-27
Deuteronomy 24-27 You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain. Deuteronomy 25:4 I hope we all know that we are not now bound by the letter of all these laws. First of all, I am guessing that most of us are not descendants of Israel, and so are not really …
February 27 / Deuteronomy 21-23
Deuteronomy 21-23 So you shall purge the evil from your midst… Deuteronomy 21:21b This is an oft-repeated refrain in Deuteronomy. (See Dt. 13:5; 17:7,12; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21,24; 24:7; as well as 1 Corinthians 5:13.) Maybe we should pay attention. It would be easy for us to get side-tracked here (again!) by our own discomfort over these statements. We think …