Joshua

Outline

• I. Entering into the good land
• A. God's commission
• 1. God's charge, promise, and encouragement to Joshua
• 2. Joshua's charge to the people
• 3. The people's response to Joshua
• B. Spying out the land
• 1. Joshua's sending of the two spies
• 2. Jehovah's providing of Rahab the harlot
• 3. The two spies' return and report
• C. Crossing the river Jordan
• D. Preparation before the attack
• 1. The reaction of the kings of the Amorites and the Canaanites
• 2. The circumcision of the new Israel
• 3. The keeping of the Passover
• 4. The eating of the produce of the promised land
• 5. The vision seen by Joshua
• II. Taking possession of the good land
• A. The destruction of Jericho
• B. The destruction of Ai
• 1. The defeat at Ai
• 2. The victory over Ai
• 3. Joshua's recording and reading of the law to the people of Israel
• C. The saving of Gibeon
• D. The destruction of all the rest of the nations in the hill country and the lowland west of the Jordan and on all the shore of the Great Sea
• 1. The destruction of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon
• 2. The destruction of the thirty-one kings of the thirty-one nations in the hill country and the lowland west of the Jordan and of Heshbon under King Sihon and Bashan under King Og east of the Jordan
• III. Allotting the good land
• A. The land remaining to be possessed
• B. The land east of the Jordan allotted to the two and a half tribes by Moses
• C. No land allotted to the tribe of Levi
• D. The land allotted to the tribe of Judah
• E. The land allotted to the tribe of Joseph
• 1. From Jericho to Bethel and to the sea
• 2. The land allotted to the children of Ephraim, the second son of Joseph
• 3. The land allotted to Manasseh, the firstborn of Joseph
• F. The land to be allotted to the rest of the seven tribes
• 1. Joshua's preparations for allotting and dividing the land unto the seven tribes
• 2. The land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin
• 3. The land allotted to the tribe of Simeon
• 4. The land allotted to the tribe of Zebulun
• 5. The land allotted to the tribe of Issachar
• 6. The land allotted to the tribe of Asher
• 7. The land allotted to the tribe of Naphtali
• 8. The land allotted to the tribe of Dan
• 9. The inheritance given to Joshua
• G. The cities of refuge
• 1. For the manslayer who kills a person by mistake and unwittingly
• 2. Three in Canaan, west of the Jordan
• 3. Three in the land east of the Jordan
• H. The cities with their pasture lands allotted to the Levites
• 1. Claimed by them at Shiloh and given to them by lot
• 2. To the children of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites
• 3. To the rest of the children of Kohath
• 4. To the children of Gershon
• 5. To the children of Merari
• I. The fulfillment of Jehovah's promise to the fathers of Israel
• J. The return of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh to their land east of the Jordan
• IV. Joshua's departure
• A. Joshua's parting word to the elders, heads, judges, and officers of Israel
• B. Joshua's parting word to all the tribes of Israel with their elders, heads, judges, and officers