Joshua 1-4
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The relentless God-driven march of the Israelites continues as they seek to take land from other peoples.
* God can also part the river Jordan as he did the Red Sea, though this time they weren't in a hurry or running from their oppressors so probably would've been fine making a few boats, or a bridge?
* They are about to take Jericho and kill everyone except the family of a harlot who sheltered the Israelite spies and lied to her own people about where they were and why they were in Jericho. She seems fine with this bizarre arrangement and is presumably not going to do anything as rash as perhaps warning her people that a vast army is coming to slaughter them all.
* God can also part the river Jordan as he did the Red Sea, though this time they weren't in a hurry or running from their oppressors so probably would've been fine making a few boats, or a bridge?
* They are about to take Jericho and kill everyone except the family of a harlot who sheltered the Israelite spies and lied to her own people about where they were and why they were in Jericho. She seems fine with this bizarre arrangement and is presumably not going to do anything as rash as perhaps warning her people that a vast army is coming to slaughter them all.