Обозрение книги Иисуса Навина

Jesus is commanded to tell the people to pay heed to the law of God; sends spies, who came to Jericho. Having learned about this, the king of the city sent to look for these men from the harlot Rahab, who received them. But she hid the spies, and for this service she asked for mercy for her house when the city was taken, to which they agreed. When they returned, they told about what had happened. Jesus commands the people to cross the Jordan; and they crossed over on dry ground and set up twelve stones in the place of the camp. The Amorite kings, who lived on the other side of the Jordan, and the Phoenician kings, having learned that the Jews had crossed the Jordan on dry ground, were horrified and confused. Then Jesus, at the command of God, circumcises the Israelites with stone knives. Since they were in the desert for forty years, many of the soldiers were not circumcised: they died; and in their place God raised up their sons, whom Jesus circumcised, because they remained uncircumcised along the way. Then he celebrated the Passover; and on the day that they ate unleavened bread from the wheat of the land, the manna ceased. Jesus is commanded to take off his shoes and walk around Jericho with trumpets and the ark for seven days. When this was accomplished, the walls fell of their own accord. It is obvious that from that time on the peace of the Sabbath began to be disturbed, because no matter how anyone begins to count the days, the Sabbath must inevitably fall on these seven days. Then Rahab escapes with his relatives and settles among the Israelites, and the city is burned and cursed; Jesus cursed the one who would restore it. Akhar secretly took several cursed things, and the people were defeated in an attack on another city. Jesus prays to God, and God commands him to cleanse himself from the accursed thing. Akhar is identified, convicted of theft and stoned with his sons and daughters. Jesus renewed the war and took Ai (Gaza) and burned it; Twelve thousand died in it, and the king of the city was hanged on a tree. The kings of the Amorites, Canaanites and others are going to attack the Israelites. Jesus builds an altar of solid stones and writes Deuteronomy on them; one half of the people stood near Mount Ebal, and the other near Mount Gerizin. The following is about the Gibeonites. They, having heard about the Israelites and feared them because of what they had done in battles, come to them dressed in old clothes, with stale bread and worn-out shoes, and tell the people that they are coming from a distant country and, as proof that they live far away, show their clothes, bread and shoes. They said that all this had decayed along the way, but they came to conclude an alliance with them. The Israelites, without asking God, entered into an alliance; but having learned that they deceived them and lived not far away, but close, they could not fight against them because of the oath and made them slaves - woodcutters and water-carriers. Here the prophecy of Noah was fulfilled, which he uttered: “Cursed is Canaan; He will be a servant of servants to his brothers” (Gen. 9:25), since they came from Canaan. Adonibezek, king of Jerusalem, hearing that Jericho and Ai had been taken and that the Gibeonites had surrendered, went to war against them along with other kings. They called Jesus for help. He came, fought and put the enemies to flight; hail fell on them from heaven, which destroyed them more than the sword of the children of Israel; Then the sun stood still against Gibeon, and the moon against the valley of Elom; And Jesus slew all the people of the enemy and five kings; took Manila, Lovna, Lachish, Aglon, Hebron, Debir and the mountainous and level country. Many other kings gathered with numerous armies; and Jesus defeated them. Their names, cities and numbers are indicated here. Jesus is commanded to divide the land among the Israelites, and describes which tribe received an inheritance and what was given to the Levites. Jesus sends the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh to their inheritances, which they received during the life of Moses. Having departed, they built an altar near the Jordan. This confused the other tribes, who thought that they had done this out of apostasy, and sent an embassy to them with reproach. But they, in their justification, said that they built the altar not because of apostasy, but so that your descendants would not consider our sons to be alien to their kinship, for the reason that the Jordan flows between them, so that this altar would serve as a witness and so that your children could not say to our descendants: “You have no part in the Lord” (Joshua 22:27). This convinced the other tribes not to fight against them. Then Jesus calls the Israelites together, reminds them of God's benefits, urges them to keep the law, predicts the disasters that await them if they do not keep it, and dies. Eleazar the high priest also dies, and Phinehas his son is made high priest in his place. The Israelites began to worship idols and were betrayed to Eglom, the king of Moab, who ruled over them for eighteen years. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” You might be interested in: