{"id":54848,"date":"2019-05-04T23:18:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T20:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=54848"},"modified":"2019-05-04T23:18:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T20:18:49","slug":"summary-of-the-journey-and-one-final-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/summary-of-the-journey-and-one-final-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Summary of the Journey and One Final Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"54848","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":47436,"related_cahpter":"211","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the conclusion of the Joshua narrative, Joshua 24 effectively serves as the conclusion to the entire wilderness narrative. In the lens of this chapter, the exodus and wilderness narratives serve as a vehicle to promote a specific ideology: God as a deity held in high esteem, and therefore, worthy of praise. The chapter shows how God merits this praise through the performance of military conquest on behalf of Israel. This chapter\u2019s significance, then, lies in its ability to summarize key episodes within the wilderness that will end up justifying the covenant made through the chapter. This concluding chapter of Joshua is similar in tone to Moses\u2019 final speeches in Deuteronomy as both of them include a portion where they lay out the covenant as a choice that implores the people to deliberate on their options and then seek to accept God\u2019s will. With the formation of the covenant completed, Joshua, like Moses, dies after dismissing the tribes of Israel to their allotted portions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 24:14-15, after summarizing how God has been to the people, Joshua asks them to choose whether to follow God. In 24:16-18, the people choose to accept God\u2019s will, yet in 24:19-24, Joshua challenges them. He states that they cannot truly keep a covenant with God. This serves as a final test for Israel before taking the Promised Land. Joshua again repeats the warnings of breaking this covenant citing harsh punishment, reminiscent of the warnings implied in 24:7, 17. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carolyn Pressler in her <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joshua, Judges, and Ruth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">argues that the people\u2019s acceptance in 24:21 displays Israel making a deeper deliberation on the choice to accept God\u2019s will. 24:22 is strange as it has Israel serving as a witness against themselves. Despite this odd construction of Israel\u2019s agreement, Israel serving as their own witness is another example of Israel\u2019s deeper deliberation. 24:23-24 serve as fulfillment of the actions Joshua instructed the people from 24:14-15. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deeper deliberation has resulted in action. 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