03.24.2015 Old Testament: Jos 11.21–23

To read the Bible in a year, read Joshua 11–13 on March 24, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

Israel faced large, fierce warriors when they entered the Land of Canaan, but when Joshua and the children of Israel did what the Lord commanded, He delivered what He promised,

And at that time Joshua came and cut off the Anakim from the mountains: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod. So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war (Joshua 11.21–23). 

Waging war does not come easy, but although Israel had to engage in the hard work of warfare, they succeeded and then had peace because they simply did what the Lord said to do. Is that so hard? If not, why do we fail to do it?