Monday, October 10, 2011 - Daily Encouragement .. (late blogging)

Monday, October 10, 2011 -
April 16 Reading - "One Year Bible"

Joshua 11:1-12:24; Luke 17:11-37; Psalm 84:1-12; Proverbs 13:5-6

5:00 a.m. Prayer/Devotion
5:30 a.m. - Pure Cardio 10 min/ Weights (Upper and Lower Body)

Joshua 11:1-12:24; Luke 17:11-37; Psalm 84:1-12; Proverbs 13:5-6

Joshua 11-12:24

New Living Translation (NLT)

Joshua 11

Israel Defeats the Northern Armies

 ¹ When King Jabin of Hazor heard what had happened, he sent messages to the following kings: King Jobab of Madon; the king of Shimron; the king of Acshaph; ² all the kings of the northern hill country; the kings in the Jordan Valley south of Galilee^[a]; the kings in the Galilean foothills^[b]; the kings of Naphoth-dor on the west; ³ the kings of Canaan, both east and west; the kings of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites in the towns on the slopes of Mount Hermon in the land of Mizpah. ⁴ All these kings came out to fight. Their combined armies formed a vast horde. And with all their horses and chariots, they covered the landscape like the sand on the seashore. ⁵ The kings joined forces and established their camp around the water near Merom to fight against Israel.
 ⁶ Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them. By this time tomorrow I will hand all of them over to Israel as dead men. Then you must cripple their horses and burn their chariots.”
 ⁷ So Joshua and all his fighting men traveled to the water near Merom and attacked suddenly. ⁸ And the Lord gave them victory over their enemies. The Israelites chased them as far as Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward into the valley of Mizpah, until not one enemy warrior was left alive. ⁹ Then Joshua crippled the horses and burned all the chariots, as the Lord had instructed.
 ¹⁰ Joshua then turned back and captured Hazor and killed its king. (Hazor had at one time been the capital of all these kingdoms.) ¹¹ The Israelites completely destroyed^[c] every living thing in the city, leaving no survivors. Not a single person was spared. And then Joshua burned the city.
 ¹² Joshua slaughtered all the other kings and their people, completely destroying them, just as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded. ¹³ But the Israelites did not burn any of the towns built on mounds except Hazor, which Joshua burned. ¹⁴ And the Israelites took all the plunder and livestock of the ravaged towns for themselves. But they killed all the people, leaving no survivors. ¹⁵ As the Lord had commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua. And Joshua did as he was told, carefully obeying all the commands that the Lord had given to Moses.
 ¹⁶ So Joshua conquered the entire region—the hill country, the entire Negev, the whole area around the town of Goshen, the western foothills, the Jordan Valley,^[d] the mountains of Israel, and the Galilean foothills. ¹⁷ The Israelite territory now extended all the way from Mount Halak, which leads up to Seir in the south, as far north as Baal-gad at the foot of Mount Hermon in the valley of Lebanon. Joshua killed all the kings of those territories, ¹⁸ waging war for a long time to accomplish this. ¹⁹ No one in this region made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites of Gibeon. All the others were defeated. ²⁰ For the Lord hardened their hearts and caused them to fight the Israelites. So they were completely destroyed without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 ²¹ During this period Joshua destroyed all the descendants of Anak, who lived in the hill country of Hebron, Debir, Anab, and the entire hill country of Judah and Israel. He killed them all and completely destroyed their towns. ²² None of the descendants of Anak were left in all the land of Israel, though some still remained in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.
 ²³ So Joshua took control of the entire land, just as the Lord had instructed Moses. He gave it to the people of Israel as their special possession, dividing the land among the tribes. So the land finally had rest from war.

Joshua 12

Kings Defeated East of the Jordan

 ¹ These are the kings east of the Jordan River who had been killed by the Israelites and whose land was taken. Their territory extended from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon and included all the land east of the Jordan Valley.^[e] 2 King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, was defeated. His kingdom included Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon Gorge, and extended from the middle of the Arnon Gorge to the Jabbok River, which serves as a border for the Ammonites. This territory included the southern half of the territory of Gilead. ³ Sihon also controlled the Jordan Valley and regions to the east—from as far north as the Sea of Galilee to as far south as the Dead Sea,^[f] including the road to Beth-jeshimoth and southward to the slopes of Pisgah.
 ⁴ King Og of Bashan, the last of the Rephaites, lived at Ashtaroth and Edrei. ⁵ He ruled a territory stretching from Mount Hermon to Salecah in the north and to all of Bashan in the east, and westward to the borders of the kingdoms of Geshur and Maacah. This territory included the northern half of Gilead, as far as the boundary of King Sihon of Heshbon.
 ⁶ Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the Israelites had destroyed the people of King Sihon and King Og. And Moses gave their land as a possession to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Kings Defeated West of the Jordan

 ⁷ The following is a list of the kings that Joshua and the Israelite armies defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which leads up to Seir. (Joshua gave this land to the tribes of Israel as their possession, ⁸ including the hill country, the western foothills,^[g] the Jordan Valley, the mountain slopes, the Judean wilderness, and the Negev. The people who lived in this region were the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.) These are the kings Israel defeated: ⁹ The king of Jericho
   The king of Ai, near Bethel
 ¹⁰ The king of Jerusalem
   The king of Hebron
 ¹¹ The king of Jarmuth
   The king of Lachish
 ¹² The king of Eglon
   The king of Gezer
 ¹³ The king of Debir
   The king of Geder
 ¹⁴ The king of Hormah
   The king of Arad
 ¹⁵ The king of Libnah
   The king of Adullam
 ¹⁶ The king of Makkedah
   The king of Bethel
 ¹⁷ The king of Tappuah
   The king of Hepher
 ¹⁸ The king of Aphek
   The king of Lasharon
 ¹⁹ The king of Madon
   The king of Hazor
 ²⁰ The king of Shimron-meron
   The king of Acshaph
 ²¹ The king of Taanach
   The king of Megiddo
 ²² The king of Kedesh
   The king of Jokneam in Carmel
 ²³ The king of Dor in the town of Naphoth-dor^[h]
   The king of Goyim in Gilgal^[i]
 24 The king of Tirzah.
   In all, thirty-one kings were defeated.

Footnotes:

1. Joshua 11:2 Hebrew in the Arabah south of Kinnereth.
2. Joshua 11:2 Hebrew the Shephelah; also in 11:16.
3. Joshua 11:11 The Hebrew term used here refers to the complete consecration of things or people to the Lord, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering; also in 11:12, 20, 21.
4. Joshua 11:16 Hebrew the Shephelah, the Arabah.
5. Joshua 12:1 Hebrew the Arabah; also in 12:3, 8.
6. Joshua 12:3 Hebrew from the Sea of Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah, which is the Salt Sea.
7. Joshua 12:8 Hebrew the Shephelah.
8. Joshua 12:23 Hebrew Naphath-dor, a variant spelling of Naphoth-dor.
9. Joshua 12:23 Greek version reads Goyim in Galilee.