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The Book of Joshua Ruth
Title: The Book of Joshua Ruth
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 4681 | Pages: 19.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Book of Joshua Ruth
The Book of Joshua
Chapter 1
The book begins with the history, not of Joshua’s life (many remarkable passages of that we had before in the books of Moses) but of his reign and government. In this chapter, I. God appoints him to the government in the stead of Moses, gives him an ample commission, full instructions, and great encouragements (v. 1-9). II. He accepts the government, and addresses himself immediately to the business of it, giving orders to the officers of the people in general (…showed first 85 words of 4681 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 4681 total…publicly solemnized, and attended with the good wishes of his neighbours (v. 9–12). III. The happy issue that descended from this marriage, Obed, the grandfather of David (v. 13–17). And so the book concludes with the pedigree of David (v. 18–22). Perhaps it was to oblige him that the blessed Spirit directed the inserting of this story in the sacred canon, he being desirous that the virtues of his great-grandmother Ruth, together with her Gentile extraction and the singular providences that attended her, should be transmitted to posterity.
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