Don’t Stop Before the Work Is Done | Joshua 11–19 (Session 13)

In this verse-by-verse study of Joshua 11–19, Reasoning Through the Bible moves through one of the most detailed sections in the book of Joshua. These chapters include long lists of conquered kings, cities, boundaries, tribes, inheritances, and land divisions. At first glance, the details may feel tedious, but they serve an important purpose: they show that Joshua is not religious myth, but real history rooted in real places, real people, and real covenant promises.

This session explores why God included so many land details, how Joshua’s conquest shows God’s faithfulness, and why Israel still failed to finish the work completely. The discussion also addresses the hardening of hearts, the Anakim giants, the later problem of Goliath from Gath, and the danger of leaving unfinished obedience behind.

The study also highlights Caleb’s remarkable faith at 85 years old. Caleb does not ask for the easiest land. He asks for the hill country where the giants live, because he still trusts the Lord’s promise. The episode also explains why the Levites received no tribal land inheritance, how that helps illuminate Barnabas in Acts 4, why occult practices such as divination are condemned, and how the Bible gives a high and fair view of women through the daughters who receive their inheritance.

Topics in this episode include:

• Joshua 11–19 study
• conquest of Canaan
• land inheritance in Joshua
• why biblical details matter
• hardening of hearts
• Anakim and giants
• Caleb at 85
• Levites and inheritance
• Balaam and divination
• women and inheritance in the Bible
• finishing God’s assignment

Reasoning Through the Bible is a verse-by-verse Bible teaching ministry committed to careful exposition, biblical context, and faithful application.

Questions in this session:

• What about God hardening people’s hearts? 
• If God has been faithful in the past, can we trust Him in the future?
• Is it better to get wealth or closer to the Lord?
• Can a leader satisfy everyone?  

Transcript

Introduction to Joshua's Conquests

Speaker 1 0:17

Welcome back to another session of Reasoning Through the Bible . We've been going through the book of Joshua and we just finished up chapter 10 , did a little bit of chapter 11 , but we're going to continue now going through the next few chapters .

Speaker 2 0:32

Up to now , joshua has been leading Israel through the southern part of the promised land . We have here a series of chapters chapters 11 through 19 , that speak of Joshua taking the land . It gives the lists of cities that he took . Then it starts talking about how they divided up the land and , to be perfectly honest , it's very tedious . There's several chapters of just lists of names of cities . It's almost an exercise in pronunciation To our listeners . If they want to go out and try to read this aloud , go for it . We're not going to try , but the point here is that why is this here ? That's our question . Why would God take nine chapters ? And the vast majority of it is tedious legal details about which cities he took , which order , then how they divided up the land and which tribe got which section . It starts at this rock and goes over to that tree and starts at this river . Why would God have all that tedious detail ? And I'll be perfectly honest , it's a little bit boring .

Speaker 1 1:39

One reason is that this is something that's not written to us ? Is that this is something that's not written to us ? It's something that's written for us , for us to look at , but this is how the land was laid out and the inheritance and the apportion that was given to each of the tribes . It's a record that they can go back to and refer to . This was the inheritance that we got and these are the landmarks . So , on one aspect , it's something that they had to document . This was the area that we were allotted to settle in .

Speaker 2 2:09

One of the accusations that's been made against the Bible in particular , and some of these passages in the Old Testament specifically , are that they're religious texts , and there's a sense that that's true . But it's also just history , and what we find is that religious myths do not have long lists of legal details about property boundaries that mention specific cities , dozens and dozens of specific area groups , people , groups , cities that we know from secular history were real . This is not just some religious myth . This is history . This is telling us that this was true . This actually happened . This wasn't some parable that was made up like a story . No , this was a real historical event and they really took these places , and we'll touch on some high points as we go through .

Speaker 2 3:05

But our session today is going to be covering Joshua , chapters 11 through 19 . We'll point out some high points as we go through . In chapter 11 , starting in verse 1 , a group of kings joined together to come up against Israel . In verse 4 , it tells us an idea about how many soldiers are gathered up against Israel . What can we tell there , steve , about how many ? It says it doesn't give a number , but what does it say as ?

Speaker 1 3:31

the sand is on the seashore , so an uncountable amount .

Speaker 2 3:37

What resources did these people have to come up against Israel ? They had iron chariots . They had horses . They had chariots . They had implements of war . One thing that we have to remember in the Bible , a horse is an animal of war . These aren't cowboys from the western United States . The farm work was done by oxen or donkeys , things like that . A horse was an animal of war . Whenever you see someone riding on a horse , that is a symbol of war . Remember , in the New Testament , jesus and the triumphal entry . What type of animal did he ride on ? It was a burrow . It was animals that were used by the common people . Kings rode on donkeys or burrows . Common people walked . The only people on a horse were soldiers . In the triumphal entry , jesus is riding on this common animal . What is Jesus riding on over ? In the book of Revelation Horse ? He rides on a horse . So here these people in Joshua 11 had horses , they had chariots . They're up against a significant force . Chapter 11 , verse 6 .

Speaker 1 4:54

He tells them do not be afraid because of them , for tomorrow , at this time , I will deliver all of them slain before Israel , and you shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire .

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So is God faithful to his promises .

Speaker 1 5:10

Yes , absolutely , and it's another sign , once again , that the Lord has given him assurance . I'm going before you .

Speaker 2 5:17

This is what I'm going to do . If you look down at Joshua 11 , verse 20 , it tells us something here about God . It says that it was of the Lord to harden their hearts to meet Israel in battle in order that he might utterly destroy them . Here's a question , steve what's this thing

Why Include Tedious Details?

Speaker 2 5:36

about hardening a heart ? Is it the case that these people were wanting to make friends with Israel and God caused them to go up against it , or what does ?

Speaker 1 5:45

this mean ? Well , every time that I see hardening of the heart , I think of it as being like a callus , and it's even sometimes referred to as a callus heart . What happens when somebody builds a callus , for instance , a callus on their hands , from hard work ? It's from constantly working with the tool that they're with , repeatedly going over that chopping of the wood , hammering of the nails , whatever it might be over and over and over again , and it builds up a callus on the skin . It hardens the skin . So when I see something in regards to God hardening somebody's heart , many times it's God coming to that person , giving them an opportunity to follow him and them rejecting him . And then they come again here's an opportunity to follow me , and they reject him , much like what Pharaoh did yes , moses , over and over again , and each time Pharaoh kept saying no . That's what I think of . It was building up and hardening his heart towards God .

Speaker 2 6:51

Back in Genesis , as you pointed out , moses went to Pharaoh with a message . God says let my people go and it says Pharaoh hardened his heart . Next time Moses comes , pharaoh hardens his heart . Next time Moses comes , pharaoh hardened his heart . Next time Moses comes , pharaoh hardens his heart . Next time Moses comes , pharaoh hardened his heart . Next time Moses comes , god hardened his heart .

Speaker 2 7:12

What this word harden means in the original Hebrew ? It means to strengthen , it means to make strong . It's like set , like set concrete . It also means to make urgent . What he's speaking of here when he says harden their heart , he quickened it in the sense of setting concrete . What's the nature of concrete ? The nature of concrete is to get hard . Well , god just made it happen a little more quickly because that's the nature of concrete . Well , same thing here with Pharaoh's heart , or the hearts of the people of Canaan . The word means to make urgent or to press , to strengthen . That's what he did . He strengthened their resolve to do what they had already decided to do . There comes a point and this is kind of scary for us when we turn away from God , that God will turn away from us . When we turn away from God , that God will turn away from us when it comes a point where , if we reject God so many times , if we harden our heart against God , then God will say I've determined that that's the way things are going to be .

Speaker 1 8:15

And that's a scary point , and that's also what a loving person does . A loving person says if somebody doesn't want to be with me or doesn't want to love me , then I'm going to let them go , and let them go do whatever they want to do . And that's what God does many times . But it is scary Whenever a person gets to that point that God lets them go , is not interested in them anymore , and then that is scary .

Speaker 2 8:41

So what this is not saying is that God forced them to do something that they didn't want to do Correct Against their will . That is not what the original language means and it's not what this is saying In verse 21, . Who did Joshua defeat in the hill country ? It says here the Anakim . Who were the Anakim ?

Speaker 1 9:00

They were , weren't they a giant class ?

Speaker 2 9:02

of people . Back when Moses sent the original spies , they came back and said there are giants in the land . That was the Anakim . Are you and I to worry about giants in our lives ?

Speaker 1 9:14

No . Back earlier a few verses , god had just told Joshua I'm going to defeat them . This is what I want to do to them . So that was for all of them .

Speaker 2 9:30

It was for the giants as well as for the regulars . Joshua 11 , verse 22 says there were no Anakim left in the land of the sons of Israel . Only in Gaza , gath and Ashdod some remained . So here's a trivia question for you , steve who do we meet later in the Old Testament ? That was from Gath . You , steve , who do we meet later in the Old Testament ? That was from Gath , goliath , goliath Over in 1 Samuel , chapter 17 , verse 4 , israel is fighting the Philistines and they send out their champion , goliath of Gath . This is very interesting . All the way back here in Joshua , chapter 11 , here in Joshua chapter 11 , what were they supposed to do ? They were supposed to destroy everyone , but they didn't . They left some . Here in Joshua 11 , 22 , they leave some of the large people up in the places Gaza and Gath , and later Goliath of Gath is fighting

Facing Enemies with Iron Chariots

Speaker 2 10:25

against Israel Because Joshua and the people of Israel didn't do what God commanded them to do here . Then later , israel is fighting against these same people for the entire rest of the Old Testament .

Speaker 1 10:38

Isn't it funny how things that we're supposed to do and we don't do comes back to haunt us many ways .

Speaker 2 10:45

Yes , and in the end of chapter 11 , verse 23 , joshua took the whole land , according to what the Lord has spoken to Moses , except for the places that it has already told us . They didn't Joshua . Chapter 12 has a very long list of kings that Joshua defeated , and in verse 24 , it tells us there were 31 . And that's just in this chapter . So is Israel here having great victories ? Yes , absolutely . And in 13 , verse 1 , what does the Lord say about how much more work is left to do ?

Speaker 1 11:19

It says that Joshua was old , advanced in years , and God told him you are old and advanced in years and very much of the land remains to be passed .

Speaker 2 11:28

So there's still a lot to do . And then the very next verse , verse 2, . What were some of the groups that were still remaining ?

Speaker 1 11:35

Regions of the Philistines , the Geshurites , the Shehar , which is in the east of Egypt , even as far as the border of Ekron to the north .

Speaker 2 11:45

Do we see the Philistines again later in the Old Testament ?

Speaker 1 11:49

Yeah and Judges . They are oppressive there on the coastline . They actually forced the tribe of Dan up into the northern part of Israel , so the Philistines weren't driven out back here in Joshua .

Speaker 2 12:02

And we meet them later in Judges . We see them in Samuel the Philistines are a continual problem to Israel because they didn't get rid of them back here in Joshua . Then in verse six of that chapter , who do we have here ? That tells us , says God is speaking , says I will drive them out from before the sons of Israel .

Speaker 1 12:22

The inhabitants of the hill country of Lebanon . Yes .

Speaker 2 12:25

So far in the story , has God done what he says he's going to do ? Yes , what did God do to the group of kings at the beginning of chapter 11 ? He dealt with them . Remember , it says they were as many as the sand of the seashore , yet God defeated them . If God has been faithful in the past , can we trust him in the future ?

Speaker 1 12:44

Yeah , absolutely , and that's what we see through . All of this is that , god being faithful , the people might not be faithful to God , but God is faithful to them .

Speaker 2 12:55

Israel has been fighting for a while now , and here God says there's still a lot to do , but God's been faithful up to now . Is there any reason to doubt God from here on out ? No , steve , you and I . Has God ever helped us in the past ?

Speaker 1 13:11

Yes .

Speaker 2 13:12

We could spend a while sitting here listing off the places and the things that God has done for us . We might face a scary future . Is God going to be there with us in the future ?

Speaker 1 13:21

Yeah , he is , and sometimes it takes a while for things to work out where we get , maybe a little bit impatient , but in the end it works out in God's time , not ours .

Speaker 2 13:34

So then , we have , in these next chapters , a series of passages that tell us that Israel was not driving these people out Chapter 13 , verse 13 , they did not drive out the Geshurites and the Maakathites . Chapter 15 , verse 63 , did not drive out the Jebusites . Chapter 16 , verse 10 , did not drive out the Canaanites . Chapter 23 , verse 12 , speaks of the nations plural nations remaining among you . Israel stopped before they finished driving out the people of Canaan . Why do you think they stopped ?

Speaker 1 14:11

Well , that's one of the things in warfare is that you don't leave your supply chain at risk . So , as they're advancing and they're not driving these different groups out , they're leaving their supply chain , so to speak , leaving a rear flank , a rear flank and leaving an open position for them . So I don't know why they didn't want to do it .

Speaker 2 14:33

It's a mystery and the text doesn't tell us . But I have a theory . I think they were just tired . They had been fighting for a long time . Now it tells us Joshua was old . In this passage we'll get to at one point we find out they've been fighting for 30 to 35 years before they stopped . It's a long time . I think they just got tired . Do we ever get tired of doing the Lord's work ?

Speaker 1 14:57

Yes , and also , while we have faith that God is faithful and that God in this situation , he says I'm going to drive them out , Israel was also supposed to do their part . They were supposed to drive them out . So it could have been that they thought , oh well , we'll just leave them and let God drive them out . But that's not what was supposed to happen . They were supposed to be an active participant in driving them out .

Speaker 2 15:22

Steve , have you ever felt like quitting before you finish the work that the Lord has done before you ? I know I have . What do we do if we wake up one day ? If we're honest with ourselves , we admit I've been slacking off . The Lord had me doing a task and I'm slacking off . What should I do to rededicate myself ? How can I refocus on what God's original assignment was ?

Speaker 1 15:41

Go back and revisit and revisit what it was the original plan or design to do and the focus , and then go back and do it , get back right with God .

Speaker 2 15:51

Remember the place . Back in Genesis , jacob met God at Bethel and later Jacob goes through a lot of trials and tribulations in his life , but he ultimately goes back to Bethel . And that's what we need to do is to go back to Bethel , so to speak , and where we can go back to where we met God , remember the things that God has done for us in the past and remember his commands to us and he'll work for us . He's always faithful if we go back to him . And in the same chapter , chapter 13 , verse 13 , speaks of these same couple of people , the Geshurites and the Akathites . But at the end of verse 13 , I find this interesting it says they live among Israel present tense , until this day . So again , if we point it out as we've gone along , what does that tell us about the writer ?

Speaker 1 16:44

That is a contemporary of what's actually happening at the time . It's not something that was written hundreds or even thousands of years later by time . It's not something that was written hundreds or even thousands of years later by somebody . It's somebody that's writing at the time of all these things happening .

Speaker 2 16:58

As we go on . This next section has a long description of how they divided up the promised land to each tribe

Hardening Hearts and Giants

Speaker 2 17:05

, and in chapter 13 , verse 14 , it talks about the Levites . Well , who are the Levites ? What was their job ?

Speaker 1 17:11

They were the priestly tribe . They were the tribe that were to work in the tabernacle and do the sacrificing . The high priests were to come from the line of Aaron , and Aaron was Moses's brother , so the Levites didn't actually have any inheritance in the land . They were supposed to do the tabernacle and worship services .

Speaker 2 17:36

So the Levites , their entire job was what Was these sacrifices ? All those details back in Leviticus and Deuteronomy about all the sacrifices and the washings and the various types of sacrifices , and there's a fair amount of work they had to do to maintain the temple and maintain the sacrifices . And God wanted those people set apart and they picked the tribe of Levi as the priestly class that was supposed to do that service work in the tabernacle and the temple . So here in Joshua , chapter 13 , verse 14 , did the Levites get any land when they were dividing it up ? No , why . Why do you think it says they weren't supposed to get land ?

Speaker 1 18:18

They were dedicated to the offerings of the fire of the Lord , meaning the temple worship , and that was what their job was . That's what their specific position was .

Speaker 2 18:28

What would happen if the Levites , while they're being priests , were also in the cattle business , or in the orchard business , or in the farming business ? What would happen to their time ?

Speaker 1 18:40

And be taken away to go do all those other things .

Speaker 2 18:44

So God wanted them set apart to be full-time people doing the service of the Lord . Now it does say that the cities they live in were supposed to have pastors dedicated to it , the Levite cities . What were those pastors , do you think ?

Speaker 1 18:59

for , for the lambs , for the sheep , for the animals that were going to be sacrificed .

Speaker 2 19:03

The animals that were supposed to be sacrificed . So the Levites had jobs . This wasn't a small task . To supply these sacrificial animals and all the various things that were needed took a lot of time . They gave them land for that purpose , but they weren't supposed to be out there in the farming business , the ranching business or the orchard business . What's better to get land with wealth or to get closer to the Lord and depend on him and do his service work all the time ? Always better to get close to the Lord . Now here's a bit of a trivia question for you .

Speaker 2 19:37

Over in the New Testament , acts , chapter 4 , we meet a man named Barnabas , and Barnabas was a friend of Paul . It says at the end of chapter 4 that he was a Levite . Barnabas was a Levite . Before that he was a Levite . Barnabas was a Levite and it says he sold a field that belonged to him , took the money and laid it at the apostles' feet . Now over in the New Testament , that's all it says . Barnabas was a Levite , sold this field , gave the money to the apostles . If you don't know the law back here in Joshua that the Levites were not supposed to own a pasture , he shouldn't have had a pasture to sell . So in Acts 4 , this was the first time we meet Barnabas we can speculate that he had just gotten saved . He just got back right with the Lord . He's realizing that he is not doing what the Lord wanted . He was owning property when he shouldn't have , so he sells the property and gets back right with the Lord . He had money there that in his mind was ill-gotten gains , so he gives it to the church .

Speaker 1 20:39

And I just find those things that we find throughout the Bible If we realize the rules back here in Deuteronomy and in Joshua , then it just opens up a lot of passages and makes them more real . Yeah , some people will say that we should disengage the Old Testament from the New Testament and only focus on the New Testament . But knowing the Old Testament brings out a lot of flavor of the New Testament and to us it's the Old Testament , but to the people at the time , to us it's the Old Testament , but to the people at the time it was Scripture , it was their Scripture . Taking the Old Testament and knowing and the knowledge of the things that happened in the Old Testament , what we call the Old Testament , and just make our study of God devoid of that , I think might be a little bit of a dangerous position to take .

Speaker 2 21:28

So another point of interest as we travel along through these chapters is chapter 13 , verse 22 . There's a man named Balaam and it says he was a diviner or a practicer of divination , and they killed him with the sword . So what is divination and why would they kill somebody like that Divination ?

Speaker 1 21:49

is going and questioning God Sometimes they might have done it through different types of material . It also could mean something to do with the priests , because with Israel their priests had two things called the Uman and the Thuman , where they would go and question God sometimes and they would have these two articles that would give them God's answer in relation to what they were supposed to do . But that was going to God Yahweh , it wasn't going to other gods . They were not supposed to go to other gods or do any of this divination to other gods . They were to go strictly to the God of Israel .

Speaker 2 22:38

The pagan practices would sometimes use different natural materials to try to read the forces of the other world reading tea leaves , looking at the entrails of animals , trying to get signs from the sun and the moon . These

Israel's Failure to Complete Conquest

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were occultic practices . Usually , when they talk of divination in the sense of a pagan nation , they're talking about occultism , and these occultic practices were strongly and clearly denounced by God . And in this case , in Joshua , this man , balaam , was using occultic practices so they killed him with the sword . God did not hesitate to carve that out of his land .

Speaker 1 23:14

By the way , in our modern times , probably the most often that you'll see are palm readers or tarot card readers , and that's a form of divination related to having these cards tell what someone is supposed to do or what their future is . And then also you have what's referred to as a game on the Ouija board . Fooling around with . Those things are something that we really shouldn't do . They can be dangerous .

Speaker 2 23:45

So in Joshua , chapter 14 , we meet a man named Caleb . Who was Caleb ? Where did we seen ?

Speaker 1 23:51

him before he was one of the spies . It was Caleb and Joshua that said no , we need to go into the land . God's given it to us . It's the land flowing with milk and honey Right Way back in Numbers , chapter 13, .

Speaker 2 24:02

Moses sent out 12 spies . Ten of them come back saying no , we can't do it . Two of them said we can .

Speaker 1 24:13

Joshua and this man , caleb , and it was Joshua and Caleb .

Speaker 2 24:15

All the other generations died off in the wilderness , but Joshua and Caleb are the only two that are survivors of that generation , so here in Joshua , chapter 14 , in verse 10 , caleb tells us that he's 85 years old , and it says in verse 11 , I'm still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me , as my strength was then . So my strength is now for war and for going out and coming in . Now , then , give me this hill country about which the Lord spoke on that day For you heard that day that Anakim were there and the Hebron to Caleb , the son of Jephthah , for an inheritance . So I find this interesting here . This man , caleb , is 85 years old and he is full of faith . Where does he ask for land ? In the hill country ? In the hill country . When you're fighting , is it harder to fight on flat ground or harder to fight uphill ?

Speaker 1 25:21

Uphill . The high ground is the best defensive position .

Speaker 2 25:25

So if you have an enemy on the top of a hill , it's very difficult , it's harder to fight uphill . Enemy on the top of a hill , it's very difficult , it's harder to fight uphill . And not only is there an enemy on the hill country that's hard to do . This enemy were who ? Again ? The Anakim Anakim , which were the giant people . These were the large people . So think of it . This is Caleb , 85 years old , and what he's asking for not settling for he's asking for the hardest job . He's saying I can do it with God's help . I want to go fight giants uphill , and that's the kind of Christian we ought to be . That's the kind of Christian that I wish I was more like . That's the kind of Christian that says I want the hardest job because God's going to be with me and no matter how difficult it is , god will be with me and I'll take it and it shows that Caleb's faith hasn't faltered in all these years .

Speaker 1 26:18

His faith in God and what God could do and that God was on their side hadn't faltered . He still believed and had that faith .

Speaker 2 26:27

Then next we go down to Joshua , chapter 17 . And if we look all the way down , in verse 14 , they're dividing up the land amongst the tribes . What's interesting here is that there's a group of people that come to Joshua in Joshua 17 , verse 14 . The sons they were the sons of Joseph . They were the sons of Joseph . What ?

Speaker 1 26:48

were they asking for . You've only given us one lot , but there were a lot of us in this tribe . So the answer in the next verse says what , If you're that numerous , go on up into the forest . A clearer place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and Raphael , since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you . If you want more land , go take it .

Speaker 2 27:11

And they replied back in the following verse the hill country is not enough for us , and all the Canaanites who live in the valley land have chariots of iron . Both those are in Beth She'en and the towns around it . So these people were basically coming to Joshua and complaining to Joshua and complaining . They complained about what they had gotten , and Joshua responds by saying , ok , you can go take care of it . So here's a question about leadership . If you're the leader , are you going to be able to satisfy everybody ? No , not by a long shot . Can you expect some complaints when you're the leader ? Yeah , people are going to be coming to you not satisfied . What happens if a leader tries to satisfy everybody ?

Speaker 1 27:56

Then they're not really a leader and their leadership is compromised . And the squeaky wheel that gets the grease other people see that , Other people hear that and see what happens and your leadership is compromised . How hard is it to be a leader ? It's difficult , it's really difficult to make those decisions . Keep everybody together , keep the vision of where you are , where you're going . It's a difficult position to do .

Speaker 2 28:26

I remember Nehemiah over in the book of Nehemiah . He was a leader and he had a lot of different people complaining a lot of problems , but he kept the vision . The same thing here with Joshua . He had these people coming to him with a complaint . They were not satisfied , but Joshua was wise , he didn't give in . Sometimes a leader has to tell people no , and a leader that gets pulled in every direction trying to satisfy everybody is just going to end in a mess . Sometimes you have to tell people no .

Speaker 1 28:56

As the example here . They complained . He said , okay , do what you want to do . Yet they still complained . So there

The Levites' Special Role

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was no winning there for him . It didn't matter what he was saying , they were complaining . So to your point , it would have been better just from the beginning to give him a good , clear direction . Say no or whatever it might have been that he should have told him to do Right Now .

Speaker 2 29:20

In chapter 17 , verses three and four , there's a man here that had no sons and in those days it was a patriarchal society . Things went through the son , the inheritances went through the son , and in those days it was a patriarchal society . Things went through the son , the inheritances went through the son . But in Joshua 17 , verse 3 , there was a man here who had only daughters , and these daughters in verse 4 , came before the priest and Joshua and the leaders and said the Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance . An inheritance was land . What can we draw from this about the ancient view here of God and Israel and the Jewish leaders about women ?

Speaker 2 30:04

The Bible has been criticized at times about its view of women and I submit that the critics haven't really read it , because the Bible really has a high view of women here . These women were strong enough to go before the high priest , the leader of the land , joshua and all the other leaders and ask very directly this is what we are owed . And they agreed and gave them an equal inheritance . These women got an equal inheritance that they should have gotten , which was their legal right . I submit that the Bible has a high view of women . It has a fair view of women Over in the New Testament , the apostle Paul has women on his ministry team that were just part of the team we're going to meet when we get to Judges .

Speaker 2 30:53

We're going to meet Deborah , who was a leader of the country , and we don't have to apologize that or shy away at all . The Bible has a very high view of women and treats women very fairly . We'll wrap up now and this is the end of today's Reasoning Through the Bible podcast . We hope that you'll stay with us as we go through and we'll see you next time .