TSK · Judges 2:1

The LORD’s angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the wilderness– the spring that is along the road to Shur.

I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

and said,“‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ decrees the LORD,‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

the Angel who has protected me from all harm– bless these boys. May my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. May they grow into a multitude on the earth.”

The LORD will fight for you, and you can be still.”

“I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

And the LORD said,“My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.

Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”

So realize that the LORD your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Israel Conquers Jericho When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. Joshua approached him and asked him,“Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?”

So the LORD sent a prophet to the Israelites. He said to them,“This is what the LORD God of Israel has said:‘I brought you up from Egypt and took you out of that place of slavery.

You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the LORD our God has driven out before us.

He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their reproductive power in the tents of Ham.

I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.

He handed the territory of nations over to them, and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,

For the honor of your name, do not treat Jerusalem with contempt. Do not treat with disdain the place where your glorious throne sits. Be mindful of your covenant with us. Do not break it!

Israel Must Return to the God of Jacob In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God.

Then I took my staff“Pleasantness” and cut it in two to annul my covenant that I had made with all the people.

“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.