Closer Day By Day

Bible Passage:  Joshua 22 Finally! The Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh can finally go back home! They have been faithful to complete what was commanded to them, to fight alongside with their brethren even though they have already taken possession of their land (Joshua 1:12-15), and it is time now for [...]

Bible Passage:  Joshua 21 As we near the end of Joshua, today’s chapter gives a listing of the various cities allotted to the Levites. This was an important chapter because it shows us that God keeps to His promises. Earlier during the days of Moses, the promise was made to the Levites that they would [...]

Bible Passage:  Joshua 21 This chapter marks the end of the allocation of the land of Canaan to the Israelites.  Although the Levites did not have their own particular land, they were given land to live on amongst all the other tribes. Again this chapter will be of great interest to the Bible Geography scholars [...]

Bible Passage: Joshua 20 For the past few days, besides the World Cup, flash floods in Singapore have been hogging the headlines.   Eyewitness pictures of the “worst floods in 20 years” were published in the papers and on the internet.   These floods caused by heavy downpour left a trail of damage and destruction [...]

Bible Passage:  Joshua 19 Is it time to relax at the dead sea? I am one who hardly watches TV and do not chase after local channel soap operas. The only shows I watch on TV are History Channel, Discovery Channel and Nat Geo.  Most of the time I spend on is History Channel. Few [...]

From the previous chapters, we have read that only some of the tribes had already been allotted lands according to the instructions of God. Now the tribes that were left to be allotted with their territories were Benjamin, Simeon, Zebulun, Asher, Issachar, Naphtali and Dan. The Levites did not receive an inheritance of land because [...]

Bible Passage:  Joshua 17 Manasseh was half of the tribe of Joseph and itself was divided into 2 parts. The land was allotted. Though each half of the tribe of Joseph and the other tribes of Israel each had their own inheritance, they were actually supposed to work together against their common enemy – the [...]

Bible Passage:  Joshua 16 Only a short chapter and a short story for today, but a good lesson and teaching for us to take away, to work together as a family of God’s chosen people. This should be our desire to long for a better country, to hope for a heavenly inheritance instead of this [...]

Bible Passage:  Joshua 15 Unless you are super keen on really old Biblical geography, the first half of the chapter will not mean much to you, other than to highlight how vast the land given to the tribe of Judah was. Ok… I did not really check on the Bible atlas but it sounds very [...]

Bible Passage:  Joshua 14 A quick quiz before we begin:) Question 1: In our Bible reading plan, what is the theme for the book of Joshua? Hopefully, we still remember it’s about the family of the chosen race. Question 2: What characteristics should this family have? In today’s chapter, we observe the behaviour of the [...]