Joshua 2:16
Rahab's bravery and faith saves Joshua's spies.and secures her salvation.
"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
Joshua 1:2-3
Moses my servant is dead. Therefore, the time has come for you to lead these people, the Israelites, across the Jordan River into the land I am giving them. I promise you what I promised Moses: 'Wherever you set foot, you will be on land I have given you.'
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.
Deuteronomy 18:21-22
If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.
Doña Juana la Loca (Queen Joanna the Mad), 1877,
oil on canvas painting by Spanish painter Francisco Pradilla.
Joanna of Castile is shown watching over the casket of her dead husband, Philip I of Castile. Philip died suddenly of typhoid fever, and it was said she carried his casket around with her everywhere, believing one day he would wake from sleep. This was a common ritual for her.
Deuteronomy 13:1-3
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.
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
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!
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
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.
Deuteronomy 4:11-13
And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. Then the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire...
'The Giving of the Law from Mt. Sinai', drawing by W. G. Phillips, engraving by Alonzo Chappel. My own colorisation.
Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Numbers 15:37-39
Later, the Lord said to Moses, "Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel..."
May the Lord bless you and keep you;
may the Lord cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
may the Lord lift up His countenance toward you and give you peace.
Leviticus 26:3-5
If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments, I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
Leviticus 23:3
For six days work may be done,
but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest,
a day of sacred assembly.
You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the Lord.
Painting by Edward Hopper
Early Sunday Morning
1930
Leviticus 20:26
You are to be holy to Me because I, the Lord, am holy,
and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.
