Joshua stands first among the twelve historical books, which record the history of the chosen people as a nation from their first occupation of Canaan to the return from the captivity, covering a period of twenty-five years. Within that history it belongs to the geographical record of the distribution of the land of Canaan among the tribes in Joshua 13 to 22, a record based upon written documents in which the property was accurately described. It also belongs to the account of the division and settling of the Promised Land in Joshua 11 to 21, which shows Israel's lack of faith and slowness, yet ends with the assurance that God wrought all that He had promised and failed not in any good thing spoken.
It names Hazar-gaddah among the cities assigned to the tribe of Judah, as one of Judah's eleven mountain cities. With the conquest of Canaan and its division among the tribes, it describes a typical rest in that land which foreshadowed the complete rest of God's people in heaven.
Joshua stands first among the twelve historical books, which record the history of the chosen people as a nation from their first occupation of Canaan to the return from the captivity, covering a period of twenty-five years. Within that history it belongs to the geographical record of the distribution of the land of Canaan among the tribes in Joshua 13 to 22, a record based upon written documents in which the property was accurately described. It also belongs to the account of the division and settling of the Promised Land in Joshua 11 to 21, which shows Israel's lack of faith and slowness, yet ends with the assurance that God wrought all that He had promised and failed not in any good thing spoken.
It names Hazar-gaddah among the cities assigned to the tribe of Judah, as one of Judah's eleven mountain cities. With the conquest of Canaan and its division among the tribes, it describes a typical rest in that land which foreshadowed the complete rest of God's people in heaven.