Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-10-25
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
lesson In the International Series
Tor October 20, 1eO2-Joshua
z and Caleb. E+ea
Tf1BIEssoN TEzT.

fsazes - n (5oshua H:5-15)
s. And the Loro commanded Moses. 20
| the children of Israel did, and they divided
| the land. =
/ s. Then-the children of Judah came unto
Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son Of 5e-
| phunneh the Kenezite said unto him. Thou
knowest the thing that>the Lord said unto
| Moses the man of God concerning me and
| thee in kadeshbarnea.
| z. Forty years old WassLwhen Moses the
| servant of the Lord sent1ne from Kadesh-
| barnea to espy out the land; and I brought
him word again as twas in mine heart.
s. Nevertheless my brethren that went
| up with me made the heart of the people
melt: but wholly followed the Lord my
God. 9
8. And Moses sware on that day, saying.
ESurely the land whereon thy feet have
Etrodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy
children's forever. because thou hast who'll
| Iy followed the Lord my GodS
10. And now, behold, the Lord hath kept
me alive, as He saids these 40 and five years,
even since the Lord spake this word unto
| Moses, while the children of Israel wan
-dered in the wilderness. and now, 10, am
this day fourscore and five years old =
+ u. And yet am as strong this day as
was in the day that Moses seItme: as my
| strength was then, even so is1my strength
now, for war, both TO go out. and TO
/ come in - .>>
| II. Now therefore give me this mountain,
whereof the Lord spake in that day; for
thou heardest in that day how the Anakirns
|
and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with
me. then shall be a bic to drive them out,
as the Lord said.
1S And Joshua blessed him, and gave
/ unto Caleb the son Of Jephunneh Hebron.
for al Inheritance.
II. Hebron therefore became the inher-s
itance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
| keneZite unto this day, because that he
wholly followed the Lord God of Israel. =
is. And the name of Hebron before was
4 * asT a.
among the Arakims. And the land had
rest from war. &
GOLDEN TEXT.-He VIII oily followed
the LOrd.-JOsh. 14;I4. 81
Il OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURAL SECTION.
Compact with the Gibeonites. ....Josh tx
Conquest of southern Canaan...... Josh. X.,,
Conquest of northern Canaan...... Josh. XII
/ Inc portions unconquered. Josh xiii
TIME.-B. C. 1851, 145O and 1445 >,
| PLACE.-Gilgal. y
1 - - - - NOTES AND COMMENTS. - r
q Z The Conquest.@It took about seven
I years TO subdue Canaan with anything
like complet eness, though the victory
was practically assured in much less
time. Joshua''s plan of campaign was
mastery. By. taking Jericho and Al.
and by securing the cities of Gideon,
Beerooth and Chephirah and Kiriatb-
|
(9:t-1S), Canaan was divided into two
parts by-a lire running from j ericho to
the Mediterranean, so that the kings
of the north and of the south were cut
off from cooperating with each other.
Then Joshua first conquered the south
and then. the north by the swiftness of
his movements and the impetuosity of
his attacks. All this was done before
the redemption of the promise made to
Caleb. ,--s. 49,. .--- -..-...--.---~. p
The Two Campaigns Chapter vii. re-
Iates the defeat of a small detachment
I of men at Al, as the result of the dis
obedience, of Achan, who had taken
some of the plumber Of Jericho for his
own use; the detection and punishment
of the offender and, withhim, the ston-
ing to death of his innocent children.
Joshua was a,noble servant of God, but
p, we who have known Christ's revelation
of the heart of God cannot believe
that he was right in supposing all the
cruelty and barbarism of those days tic
be pleasing in Gods sight. The next
two chapters relate the taking of Al,
and the stratagem of the Gibeonites.
The accounts of the conquest found in
Joshua indicate two distinct cam
paigns carried on by the nation as a
whole, with marvellous success. The
first was in the southern part of the
country, and began with the defeat of
the five Amorite kings IT brought
| about the complete subjugation of
that part of the country nd the ex-
termina ton of most of the original
inhab iants. The northern campaign
4 began with. the defeat of thecoalition
under Jabin, king of Hazor, and. was,
throughout, sweeping victory. The
accounts in Joshua and Judges have
never been satisfactorily harm onized.
Joshua perhaps gives a sort of CON
densed account of what really took
much longer time than would appear
on the surface.
Caleb's Claim.-"The children of
judah drew nigh unto Joshua:" Caleb
belonged to the tribe of Judah by
adoption, for he was not one of the
Hebrews by birth. He was "Caleb-
the Kenezite.'' .sThe thing that Je-
hovah. spake-coneernin me:'' He
based his claim on Jehovah's prom
Use, spoken more than 10 years be-
fore. "Forty years old was To Ca
leb was So years old at the time of
this lesson. my brethren" Caleb
is referring. to the ten cowardly
spies,-men who had been enemies
to the whole nation. but he speaks
kindly and nurses no resentment in
his heart. 81 am as strong this day
| as I was:o~-His life had not been
easy, but it had been pure and good
and strong, and he assured Joshua
that he was just as well able to. con-
quer the Anakim as ever, though he
was IS years old. +'This old veteran.
whose services would have entitled
him to almost any reward he might
ask, did not seek for a soft place for
his declining years, but for author
ity to do yet more hard fghting."-
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