RUTH 1:3, 5 Then Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.Then both Mah/on and Chi/ion also died; so the woman survived her two sons and her husband. A man took his elderly mother out to the cemetery to decorate graves for Memorial Day. After placing...
RUTH 1:2-4 The name of the man was Elimelech, the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mah/on and Chilion-Ephrathites of Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to the country of Moab and remained there. Then Efimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left,...
RUTH 1:1 Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. Desperation can drive us to...
JUDGES 2:6-8 And when Joshua had dismissed the people, the children of Israel went each to his own inheritance to possess the land. So the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great...
JOSHUA 24:15 “And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But...
JOSHUA 24:13 “I [God] have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwelling them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.” During the Spanish-American War, Clara Barton, the founder of the Red...
JOSHUA 23:6-8 Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left, and lest you go among these nations, these who remain among you. You...
JOSHUA 22:4 And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brethren, as He promised them; now therefore, return and go to your tents and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan. William...
JOSHUA 18:23 But there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes which had not yet received their inheritance. Then Joshua said to the children of Israel: "How long will you neglect to go and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?" Some people...
JOSHUA 14:6-7 Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him: "You know the word which the LORD said to Moses the man of God concerning you and me in Kadesh Barnea. I was forty years old when...