Sunday Sermonette: This will be over soon, I promise

I ' m afraid we ' re still in excruciating boredom territory as the interminable process of dividing up the land continues. I still can ' t say what the point of all this is or why it ' s in the book. God works in mysterious ways I guess. My only comment is that it just seems impossible to get rid of the " giants. " They are mentioned several times in Deuteronomy, and again in Joshua, and they are supposedly wiped out several times. But here they are again -- and they are still around in Judges. Hard to know what ' s going on with them.18 The whole assembly of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The country was brought under their control,2 but there were still seven Israelite tribes who had not yet received their inheritance.3 So Joshua said to the Israelites: “How long will you wait before you begin to take possession of the land that theLord, the God of your ancestors, has given you?4 Appoint three men from each tribe. I will send them out to make a survey of the land and to write a description of it, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me.5 You are to divide the land into seven parts. Judah is to remain in its territory on the south and the tribes of Joseph in their territory on the north.6 After you have written descriptions of the seven parts of the land, bring them here to me and I will cast lots for you in the presence of theLord our God.7 The Levites, however, do not g...
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