Day 88: Joshua's Last Words to Israel (2026)
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The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 88. It is the last day. We are reading from the book of Joshua. We're reading Joshua chapter 22, 23, and 24. We're also praying Psalm 132. As always, I am reading from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition, and I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan to follow along with us, prepare your day to know what you're going to be reading or hearing from, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year.
If you did that, you would know that tomorrow we're starting the book of Judges. and the book of Ruth. So we're kind of taking a turn in the sense of turning back to what we haven't done for maybe the last eight days or so, which is having multiple books proclaimed to us, multiple books read to us. In the next four days, starting tomorrow, we're reading through Ruth chapter one through chapter four, one chapter a day, following her story, as well as Judges, as I said. Today is the last day of Joshua, and we're finding what happens at the very end of his time serving the people of Israel and serving the Lord and helping the people become... as prepared as they possibly can be to dwell in the promised land.
If you want to subscribe to your podcast, you can do that. And that would be helpful for all of us involved in this whole thing. Without anything further, once again, it is day 88. We're reading Joshua chapter 22, 23 and 24 and Psalm 132. The book of Joshua chapter 22, the Eastern tribes return. Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh and said to them, "'You have kept all that Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I have commanded you. You have not forsaken your brethren these many days down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the Lord your God.'" And now the Lord your God has given rest to your brethren as he promised them.
Therefore turn and go to your home in the land where your possession lies, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the other side of the Jordan. Take good care to observe the commandment and the law which Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded you. to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cling to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their homes. Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given a possession in Bashan. But to the other half, Joshua had given a possession beside their brethren in the land west of the Jordan. And when Joshua sent them away to their homes and blessed them, he said to them, Go back to your homes with much wealth, and with very many cattle, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren. So the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, parting from the sons of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had possessed themselves by command of the Lord through Moses.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:08
2
How does Father Mike introduce Day 88 and today's readings?
3:08–14:29
3
What is the significance of Joshua chapters 22–24 being read today?
14:29–15:25
4
Why does Joshua bless and send the Eastern tribes home in chapter 22?
15:25–21:34
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What controversy arises over the altar of witness and how is it resolved?
21:34–21:35