The Sunday School Lesson Joshua's Spiritual Development for Leadership by David McGee
Oct 06, 2024
Joshua's Spiritual Development for Leadership (34:14)
Referenced Scriptures: Exodus 33:7-11; Numbers 11:1-35; Numbers 27:12-23; Deuteronomy 31:14-29
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Exodus 33:7-11
7) Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The tent of meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.
8) It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
9) It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses.
10) All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshipped, everyone at their tent door.
11) Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn‘t depart out of the Tent.
Numbers 11:1-35
1) The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
2) The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.
3) The name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt among them.
4) The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
5) We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
6) but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look on.
7) The manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium.
8) The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
9) When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
10) Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.
11) Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why haven‘t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
12) Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their fathers?
13) Whence should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
14) I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
15) If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
16) Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
17) I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.
18) Say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you shall eat.
19) You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,
20) but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
21) Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
22) Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
23) Yahweh said to Moses, Has Yahweh‘s hand grown short? now shall you see whether my word shall happen to you or not.
24) Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.
25) Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
26) But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
27) There ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
28) Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them.
29) Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? would that all Yahweh‘s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!
30) Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
31) There went forth a wind from Yahweh, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day‘s journey on this side, and a day‘s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
32) The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
33) While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
34) The name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
35) From Kibrothhattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.
Numbers 27:12-23
12) Yahweh said to Moses, Get you up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
13) When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;
14) because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
15) Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,
16) Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
17) who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Yahweh not be as sheep which have no shepherd.
18) Yahweh said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;
19) and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
20) You shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.
21) He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
22) Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
23) and he laid his hands on him, and gave him a charge, as Yahweh spoke by Moses.
Deuteronomy 31:14-29
14) Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
15) Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
16) Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
17) Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven‘t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?
18) I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.
19) Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
20) For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
21) It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
22) So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
23) He gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.
24) It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
25) that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying,
26) Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
27) For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?
28) Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
29) For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
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