Twelve Tribes of Israel

They quickly fell to cutting dry trees, to make rafts to carry them over the river.

and soon my turn came to go over by the advantage of some brush which they had laid upon the raft to sit upon i did not wet my foot which many of themselves at the other end were mid-leg deep which cannot but be acknowledged as a favour of god to my weakened body it being a very cold time i was not before acquainted with such kind of doings or dangers thou passeth through the waters i will be with thee and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee isaiah forty three two a certain number of us got over the river that night but it was the night after the sabbath before all the company was got over on the saturday they boiled an old horse's leg which they had got and so we drank of the broth as soon as they thought it was ready and when it was almost all gone they filled it up again the first week of my being among them i hardly ate anything the second week i found my stomach grow very faint for want of something and yet it was very hard to get down their filthy trash but the third week though i could not think how formerly my stomach would turn against this or that and i could starve and die before i could eat such things yet they were sweet and savoured to my taste i was at this time knitting a pair of white cotton stockings for my mistress and had not yet wrought upon a sabbath day when the sabbath came they bade me go to work i told them it was a sabbath day and desired them to let me rest and told them i would do as much more to-morrow to which they answered me they would break my face and here i cannot but take notice of the strange providence of god in preserving the heathen they were many hundreds old and young some sick and some lame many had papooses at their backs the greatest number at this time with us were squaws and they travelled with all they had bag and baggage and yet they got over this river aforesaid and on monday they set their wigwams on fire and away they went on that very day came the english army after them to this river and saw the smoke of their wigwams and yet this river put a stop to them god did not give them courage or activity to go over after us we were not ready for so great a mercy as victory and deliverance if we had been god would have found out a way for the english to have passed this river as well as for the indians with their squads and children and all their luggage oh that my people had hearkened to me and israel had walked in my ways i should soon have subdued their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries psalm eighty one thirteen fourteen the six remove on monday as i said they set their wigwams on fire and went away it was a cold morning and before us there was a great brook with ice on it some waded through it up to the knees and higher but others went till they came to a beaver-dam and i amongst them where through the good providence of god i did not wet my foot i went along that day mourning and lamenting leaving farther my own country and travelling into a vast and howling wilderness and i understood something of lot's wife's temptation when she looked back we came that day to a great swamp by the side of which we took up our lodging that night when i came to the brow of the hill that looked toward the swamp i thought we had been come to a great indian town though there were none but our own company the indians were as thick as the trees it seemed as if there had been a thousand hatchets going at once if one looked before one there was nothing but indians and behind one nothing but indians and so on either hand i myself in the midst and no christian soul near me and yet how hath the lord preserved me in safety o the experience that i have had of the goodness of god to me and mine the seventh remove after a restless and hungry night there we had a wearisome time of it the next day the swamp by which we lay was as it were a deep dungeon and an exceeding high and steep hill before it Before I got to the top of the hill, I thought my heart and legs and all would have broken and failed me.

What through faintness and soreness of body.

This is Ashley Iaconetti from the Almost Famous Podcast.

How do we do it? So, I want you to turn, if you will, to Joshua chapter one.

In Joshua chapter one, what is happening is Moses, God's servant, who's led the nation of Israel, the Hebrew children for years and years and years now, from the very beginning, and now The Lord has called him home and he has been given the responsibility, that is Joshua who has been his general and his associate and the man who stood by him all those years.

He has been given the responsibility and this is the way God said it to him.

He said, verse 2 of chapter 1, Moses my servant is dead.

Now therefore rise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people.

to the land which I'm giving to them, to the sons of Israel.

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, that is Joshua, I have given it to you just as I spoke to Moses.

From the wilderness in this Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the great sea till the setting of the sun will be your territory." No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life.