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Sep 13, 2026
Joshua SelmanHOST
Twenty-five.
Joshua SelmanHOST
'So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and, and ordinance in Shechem.
Joshua SelmanHOST
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone and set it up under an oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.' Twenty-seven.
Joshua SelmanHOST
'And Joshua said unto all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us, for it had heard all the words which the Lord spake unto us.
Joe MacnamaraHOST
Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home to the town from which he fled.
Joe MacnamaraHOST
So they set apart Kadesh in Galilee in the country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kirithav Abar, that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah.
Joe MacnamaraHOST
And beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho, they appointed Bazaar in the wilderness of the table land from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.
Joe MacnamaraHOST
These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who had killed a person without intent could flee there so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of the blood till he stood before the congregation.
Sharon BrousHOST
The subversive self-critical messaging of this Talmudic story is a lesson that's taught throughout our sacred literature.
Sharon BrousHOST
We shudder at Shimon and Levi's retal- retaliatory massacre of Shechem after their sister Dinah is raped by the town's leader in the Book of Genesis.
Sharon BrousHOST
But the brutal and disproportionate nature of their response was fueled by the silent impotence of their father, Jacob.
Sharon BrousHOST
Similarly, it's Moses' passivity in Numbers 25 that invites Pinhas the Zealot to commit murder, an act of vigilante justice.
Joshua SelmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Will we serve and his voice will we obey? We're almost there, 25.
Joshua SelmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Joshua SelmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God and took a great stone and set it up under an oak.
Joshua SelmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
that was by the sanctuary of the lord 27 and joshua said unto all the people behold this stone shall be a witness unto us for it had heard all the words which the lord spake unto us and it shall be therefore a witness unto you lest ye deny your god the final verse 28 so joshua let the people depart every man to his inheritance.
Bob DenkerGUEST
And then he has further experiences.
Bob DenkerGUEST
He comes to the good land and he settles in Shechem, and there he has some very difficult experiences that force him to flee.
Bob DenkerGUEST
And while he's passing through all these troubles in his life, he is experiencing God.
Bob DenkerGUEST
So he's being transformed by God, little by little.
John HallerGUEST
It's a complete operation.
John HallerGUEST
By the way, if you go, and I will talk about this on Sunday, if you go up to Nablus, to the biblical city of Shechem, which, well, you'll have to listen to the thing on Sunday to find out all about it, but you will see, and I was just there last year, There are new apartment buildings and homes and big homes all over what people call the West Bank.
John HallerGUEST
Why are people still living in these tenements called refugee camps almost 80 years after the War of Independence in 1948? Why is that happening? And by the way, Jordan, who had control of the area until the 67 War...
John HallerGUEST
After the 67 war, Jordan says we don't want anything to do with it.
speaker_1HOST
God hath spoken in his holiness.
speaker_1HOST
I will rejoice and divide Shechem, and meet out the valley of Succoth.
speaker_1HOST
Gilead is mine, and Manassas is mine.
speaker_1HOST
Ephraim also is the strength of my head.
Leo DeeGUEST
Jerusalem was purchased by King David, and that's documented in the Bible.
Leo DeeGUEST
We have Shechem, which is in what people call the West Bank, which was brought to bury Joseph.
Leo DeeGUEST
And Hebron, which is the core part of the West Bank here, which is the burial place of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Leo DeeGUEST
And the story of how Abraham buys it from Ephraim the Hittite appears in the book of Genesis.
Jason ShepherdHOST
Verse 7, God has spoken from his sanctuary.
Jason ShepherdHOST
In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the valley of Succoth.
Jason ShepherdHOST
Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, Ephraim is my helmet, Judah is my scepter, Moab is my washbasin.
Jason ShepherdHOST
On Edom I toss my sandal, over Philistia I shout in triumph.
Stephen AumetHOST
Save us by your right hand and answer us, that those who are dear to you may be delivered.
Stephen AumetHOST
God spoke from his holy place and said, I will exalt and parcel out Shechem.
Stephen AumetHOST
I will divide the valley of Sukkoth.
Stephen AumetHOST
Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine.
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