| Introduction | 1 |
| Joshua | |
| Moses is Dead: Long Live Joshua (1:1-6) | 5 |
| Moses Lives On--in His Word (1:7-9) | 8 |
| Land Promised: Land Taken (1:10-18) | 11 |
| A Woman of Easy Virtue? (2:1-11) | 15 |
| Faithful Rahab (2:12-24) | 18 |
| Crossing the Jordan (3:1-17) | 22 |
| What Mean These Stones? (4:1-5:1) | 25 |
| Circumcision: A Reproach Removed (5:2-9) | 29 |
| Passover and the Lord's Host (5:10-15) | 33 |
| Jericho's Walls Came Tumbling Down (6:1-27) | 36 |
| Jericho "Devoted"--Rahab Liberated (6:1-27) (cont'd) | 40 |
| Archaeology and Israel's Settlement in Canaan | 42 |
| "A Shameful Thing in Israel" (7:1-26) | 45 |
| Trouble and Guilt (7:1-26) (cont'd) | 50 |
| A Ruinous Heap of Stones (8:1-29) | 53 |
| An Altar on Mount Ebal (8:30-35) | 58 |
| Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water (9:1-27) | 61 |
| When the Sun Stood Still (10:1-15) | 66 |
| Mopping up in the South (10:16-43) | 70 |
| Conquest Complete (11:1-12:24) | 74 |
| "It was the Lord's Doing" (11:1-12:24) (cont'd) | 79 |
| Developing the Land--First Principles (13:1-14:5) | 83 |
| Judah First and Caleb (14:6-15:63) | 88 |
| Joseph and the Northerners (16:1-19:51) | 93 |
| Asylum and Levi (20:1-21:42) | 100 |
| Campaign Over--Reserves Sent Home (21:43-22:6) | 106 |
| An Altar Named Witness (22:7-34) | 109 |
| "He Knows; and Let Israel Itself Know!" (22:7-34) (cont'd) | 114 |
| Joshua's "First" Farewell (23:1-16) | 116 |
| Joshua's Review (24:1-13) | 120 |
| "Choose This Day Whom Ye Will Serve" (24:14-33) | 123 |
| Holy and Jealous God (24:14-33) (cont'd) | 126 |
| Covenant: Statutes and Ordinances (24:14-33) (cont'd) | 129 |
| Judges | |
| Judah's Settlement--A Success? (1:1-21) | 132 |
| The Situation in the North and a Divine Warning (1:22-2:5) | 136 |
| The Judges Introduced (2:6-3:6) | 140 |
| Three Short Stories (3:7-31) | 145 |
| Deborah and Barak (4:1-24) | 149 |
| The Song of Deborah (5:1-31) | 154 |
| Midianite Marauders (6:1-10) | 160 |
| Gideon Called to Arms (6:11-24) | 163 |
| Action Begins (6:25-40) | 167 |
| "The Day of Midian" (7:1-8:3) | 171 |
| Midian and Kingship (8:4-35) | 176 |
| Abimelech and Jotham (9:1-22) | 180 |
| The Fate of Abimelech and Shechem (9:23-57) | 185 |
| A List of Judges (10:1-5 and 12:7-14) | 190 |
| Setting the Record Straight (10:6-11:28) | 193 |
| A Fatal Vow and a Password (11:29-12:6) | 199 |
| Samson's Birth (13:1-25) | 203 |
| Samson's Riddle of the Lion (14:1-20) | 207 |
| Foxes' Tails and an Ass's Jawbone (15:1-20) | 212 |
| The End of Samson (16:1-31) | 216 |
| Micah and the Levite from Bethlehem (17:1-13) | 222 |
| Micah's Levite and Migrating Dan (18:1-31) | 226 |
| Models of Hospitality (19:1-30) | 232 |
| "They Murder on the Way to Shechem" (20:1-17) | 238 |
| Benjamin Brought to Book (20:18-48) | 243 |
| "Speak a Word, but it Will Not Stand" (20:18-48) (cont'd) | 248 |
| Benjamin Restored (21:1-25) | 252 |
| Ruth | |
| A Sorry Situation (1:1-5) | 258 |
| Return to Bethlehem (1:6-22) | 261 |
| "Amid Alien Corn"--I (2:1-23) | 264 |
| "Amid Alien Corn"--II (2:1-23) (cont'd) | 267 |
| At Midnight on the Threshing Floor (3:1-18) | 270 |
| Redemption (4:1-6) | 274 |
| A Happy Ending (4:7-22) | 277 |
| Further Reading | 281 |
