Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Isaiah chapter 6 - Joshua

The story of Israel’s history that is found in the book of Joshua can be easily summarized as the removal of the people groups living in the land which God was in the process of giving to Israel. The process for each of the cities was the same; kill every living soul in the city and take the possessions as prey.

The Israelites were to leave no one living. Complete and utter desolation of every city was the order of the day. We read the following from the pages of the sixth chapter of Isaiah.

“Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate.”(Is. 6:11)

The connection between the book of Joshua and Isaiah’s sixth chapter is simple, but it is highly visible and succinct.

This is the sixth chapter of Isaiah, and Joshua is the sixth book in the Bible. They are connected.

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