15 And the commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so. The Fall of Jericho 6 Now Jericho was shut up i
12 Then Joshua said to the people of Reuben, Gad, and ·East [L the half-tribe of] Manasseh, 13 “Remember what Moses, the servant of the Lord, told you [Deut. 3:18–20]. He said the Lord your God would give you ·rest [a place of rest/security] and would give you this ...
God appears to Moses in a bush that is burning but not being destroyed. As Moses approaches this odd burning bush, God tells him to take off his sandals, for he is standing on holy ground. Then God tells Moses that he will lead his people out of slavery to Egypt. And Moses says… ...
When Jesus quotes it here in Matthew 5, he adds to it the ‘and hate your enemy” part that we do not find anywhere in the mosaic law. This is evidence that the current day teaching by the rabbis and the Pharisees had morphed from the original law that was delivered by Moses. They...
In verse 8, we read about how God told Abraham to go on a journey, and Abraham took God at His Word and acted upon it. In verses 24-26, we are reminded about how Moses took God at His word and acted upon it. We read in verses 30 and following that this is the same thing tha...
12One day Moses said to the LORD, “You have been telling me, ‘Take these people up to the Promised Land.’ But you haven’t told me whom you will send with me. You have told me, ‘I know you by name, and I look favorably on you.’ ...
I think of Joshua after Moses died and he had the stress of getting two million Israelites across the Jordan River and into the Promised Land. I would have shook in my sandals, but he said to Israel, “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD ...
1. The great revelation of God, on which the whole of Judaism was built, was that made to Moses of the name "I am that I am." And parallel was that symbol of the bush, which signified not the continuance of Israel, unharmed by the fiery furnace of persecution, but the eternity of...
, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt. So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done. then his ...
Stephen also says that God addressed Moses “in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush” (7:30; so also 7:38), admonishing him to “Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Holy ground, Stephen explains, is...