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  1. June 10 - Reading Aloud

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    06/10/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    קרא - Afterward [Joshua] read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them. JOSHUA 8:34–35
    June 10 - Reading Aloud

  2. June 9 - Mounds of Memory

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    06/09/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    תל - But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction. Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the Lord that he commanded Joshua. So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day. JOSHUA 8:26–28
    June 9 - Mounds of Memory

  3. June 8 - Trouble Valley and Hope’s Doorway

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    06/08/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    עכור - And Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then the Lord turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor. JOSHUA 7:25–26
    June 8 - Trouble Valley and Hope’s Doorway

  4. June 7 - Under the Ban

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    06/07/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    חרם - And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city. And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent." JOSHUA 6:16–17
    June 7 - Under the Ban

  5. June 6 - General Jesus

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    06/06/21
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
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    June 6 - General Jesus

  6. June 5 - Circumcision and Golgotha

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    06/05/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    גלל - When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed. And the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day. JOSHUA 5:8–9
    June 5 - Circumcision and Golgotha

  7. June 5 - Circumcision and Golgotha

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    06/05/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    גלל - When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed. And the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day. JOSHUA 5:8–9
    June 5 - Circumcision and Golgotha

  8. June 4 - A Healthy, Holistic Fear

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    06/04/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    ירא - "You shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’ For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.” JOSHUA 4:22–24
    June 4 - A Healthy, Holistic Fear

  9. June 3 - Dry Ground . . . Again

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    06/03/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    חרבה - Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan. JOSHUA 3:17
    June 3 - Dry Ground . . . Again

  10. June 2 - The Salt Sea

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    06/02/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    ים המלח - The waters [of the Jericho] coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho. JOSHUA 3:16
    June 2 - The Salt Sea

  11. June 1 - A Cord of Hope

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    06/01/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    תקוה - [The spies said to Rahab], "Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's household." JOSHUA 2:18
    June 1 - A Cord of Hope

  12. May 31 - Growling over God’s Word

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    05/31/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    הגה - "This Book of the Law [i.e. Torah] shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it." JOSHUA 1:8
    May 31 - Growling over God’s Word