Handbook for Bible Students

Joshua

Key-word, “Possession;” Key-verse, 1:3.-This book, which begins a new division of the Old Testament, is the book of entrance and conquest, possession and dispossession. The land of promise was larger than the land of possession, because God gave more than faith appropriated. Moses and the law brought the Israelites to the borders of the inheritance into which Joshua, as the type of Jesus, leads. Even in the Promised Land there are conflicts. Possession is by dispossession (cf. Ephesians 6:10-18). [p. 15] HBS 37.1