2023.03.15 (Wed) Day 74 - Joshua 20-22
Chapter 20
The Cities of Refuge
Chapter 21
The Towns Given to the Levites
Chapter 22
The Eastern Tribes Return Home (1-9)
The Eastern Tribes Build an Altar (10-34)
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Joshua 20–22
Place of refuge
More divisional towns
Eastern tribes, returning home
Eastern tribes, build an altar
When eastern tribes built the altar on the Jordan. It was not against God, but built as a promise for God in remembrance. The Israelites didn’t see that at first, and gathered quickly to question why , “why would they turn against God after everything that he had done. “But then were quickly corrected.
Reflection
Shema, “ listen”
 It is my opinion, that the human race is quick to judge. We don’t always see the good, quite as fast , as we see the bad.
Have you ever had a time when you saw somebody doing some thing, and you were like…
Then the Lord said to Joshua: “tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses, so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.” (Joshua 20:1-3)
How loving our God is!! And compassionate! He commanded that certain cities to be designated as “cities of refuge” if someone killed another person accidentally. It was to protect them from family and friends of the person killed. According to the Life Application Bible, the cities of refuge were spaced throughout the land so that a person was never too far from one. Although I think it’s odd that it seemed to be so commonplace t…