Joshua 23:14
Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed.
Every promise has been fulfilled;
not one has failed.
Joshua 22:5
Keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
'God the Father', oil on canvas.
Painting by a follower of Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian, 1582–1647)
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in Gods law. But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Galatians 5:16, Proverbs 4:23.
It can be done.
Joshua 13:32-33
These are the inheritances that Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.
But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, just as he said to them.
Frederic Edwin Church, 1826-1900, American painter
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, 1846
25.4 x 31.8 cms | 10 x 12 1/2 ins
Oil on academy board
Joshua 12:1
Joshua takes possession of the land beyond the Jordan.
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still.
Doré Bible Illustration. 19th century. Coloured.
Joshua 10:12-13
The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord heeded the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel.
John Martin - Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, 1816, oil on canvas, 150x231 cm (59 1/16 x 90 15/16 in.) National Gallery of Art.
Joshua 9:22-23
Joshua called together the Gibeonites and said, "Why did you lie to us? Why did you say that you live in a distant land when you live right here among us? May you be cursed! From now on you will always be servants who cut wood and carry water for the house of my God."
Léon-Adolphe Belly (1827-1877)
Fellaheen Women by the Nile, 1856
Oil on canvas, H. 0.98 m; W. 1.3 m
https://galerieheim.com/en/stock/fellaheen-women-by-the-nile/
Joshua 6:2-3
And the Lord said to Joshua, "See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor. You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days."
Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.
Israelites In Canaan. After 40 Years of Wandering, the Israelites Cross the Jordan River Into Canaan Under the Leadership of Joshua.
Wood Engraving, 19th Century, after Gustave Doré
Joshua 2:16
"Go to the hills so the pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there three days until they return, and then go on your way."
The Flight of the Spies, James Tissot, c. 1896-1902
gouache on board, 11 9/16 x 6 7/8 in
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock,
his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.
Deuteronomy 32:2
Let my teaching fall like rain
and my words descend like dew,
like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants.
Psalm 116:12-14
What can I offer the Lord
for all he has done for me?
I will lift up the cup of salvation
and praise the Lords name for saving me.
I will keep my promises to the Lord
in the presence of all his people.
Deuteronomy 31:8
The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
A warning against idolatry.
Suppose there are prophets among you or those who dream dreams about the future, and they promise you signs or miracles, and the predicted signs or miracles occur. If they then say, ‘Come, let us worship other gods’—gods you have not known before— do not listen to them.
The Lord your God is testing you to see if you truly love him with all your heart and soul.
The Intrigue, 1890
James Ensor (Belgian, 1860-1949)
Deuteronomy 8:3
Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
Deuteronomy 5:29 (ESV)
Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!
Prayer of Moses After the Crossing of the Israelites Through the Black Sea, 1861
Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy (Russian, 1837-1887)
Deuteronomy 5:21
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, nor his bondman, nor his handmaid, his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.
Deuteronomy 5:13-14
Six days you shall labour and do all your work,
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.
Wigmore Church near Ludlow (panel in the Everitt Cabinet)
Samuel Henry Baker (1824-1909)
Birmingham Museums Trust
Deuteronomy 5:11
Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name.
Image from a 1889 oil sketch of Friedrich Nietzsche on his sick bed by Hans Johann Wilhelm Olde. Goethe-Nationalmuseum, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen, Weimar, Germany.
Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore today,
and take it to your heart,
that the Lord,
He is God in heaven above and on the earth below;
there is no other.
This beautiful painting is by American landscape artist Albert Bierstadt.
Rocky Mountains, "Lander's Peak", 1863
Bierstadt had an extraordinary ability to capture the majesty of wild America - and painting with light.
Deuteronomy 4:30-31 (ESV)
When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. For the Lord your God is a merciful God.
'Despair' by Frank Holl. 1881. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Southampton City Art Gallery. Catalogue no. 21 in the 2013 Watts Gallery exhibition, Frank Holl: Emerging from the Shadows.