Today I read Joshua 18 where they establish the Tabernacle in the land of Israel. To me that truly indicates their intention to stay and stick around. The Tabernacle has gone everywhere with them and was purposefully made to be collapsible for transportation. And now they have given it a permanent location. I wonder if the Israelites felt the same way? Did they view it as really happening once the Tabernacle was permanently settled?
Joshua really censures the Israelites in this chapter too. He reminds them that they all need lands for their inheritance and sends them out into Israel to survey the land. While reading this, I couldn't help but wonder, many battles had been fought and thousands of people were killed to make way for the Israelites to live there. Who cleaned it all up? I mean this is going to be their new home, they can't just leave the bodies to rot on the ground the way the Jaredites did. The only conclusion is that the Israelites did it themselves. They in a sense had to clean up the mess they made. I also can't help but wonder did they just move into the vacated cities, or did they tear them down and build them anew the way they wanted? So many details are lost to history and considered unimportant by the people who wrote the histories, or at least the Bible. But we will learn it all one day. That will be fun I think, to learn all the nitty gritty details of history, how it all really happened. Until tomorrow.
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