Bible Readings for July 8th Joshua 10 | Psalms 142–143 | Jeremiah 4 | Matthew 18 In Joshua 9, Israel fails to ask God before entering into a covenant with the Gibeonites. This is a serious breach in their obedience to Yahweh’s commandments, and in today’s reading, we...
Bible Readings for July 7th Joshua 9 | Psalms 140–141 | Jeremiah 3 | Matthew 17 Joshua is one of the high points in all the Bible. While Moses’s ministry was plagued by unbelief and rebellion among the Israelites, and while Israel will sink into idolatry again during...
Bible Readings for July 6th Joshua 8 | Psalm 139 | Jeremiah 2 | Matthew 16 In Joshua 8, two critical events take place. First, Israel goes into battle once more against Ai. Second, Israel renews their covenant with Yahweh on Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim. Both of these...
Bible Readings for July 5th Joshua 7 | Psalms 137–138 | Jeremiah 1 | Matthew 15 I’ve never forgotten a short rhyme one of my Sunday School teachers taught us during my elementary years: “Achan stole the bacon.” It’s a silly phrase, but that light-hearted line is...
Bible Readings for July 4th Joshua 6 | Psalms 135–136 | Isaiah 66 | Matthew 14 At the end of Joshua 5, Joshua meets a mysterious man with a drawn sword. The fact that Joshua meets him near Jericho (Josh. 5:13) both suggests that Joshua had been spying on the city and...
Bible Readings for July 3rd Joshua 5 | Psalms 132, 133 & 134 | Isaiah 65 | Matthew 13 Before Yahweh takes Israel into the land of Canaan to receive the inheritance he had promised to them for generations through their forefather Abraham, he requires that all the...
