Joshua: NOT a liar

[donfriesen1]

Very good scriptures all could agree are true.

No one has yet called Jos a liar.

But everyone has danced around the apparent contradiction, saying nothing of it, pretending it has not happened. What is the purpose of putting on the blinders? Why doesn't anyone talk about the elephant in the room?

Plz, in light of those scriptures, could someone comment on the following scripture. Apparently the Lord himself here doesn't agree with the insinuations that everything that was promised was received/possessed/dwelt in. Jos says they have, in 21.43 saying all the promised land was received, possessed and dwelt in - contradicting the following verses. This is a far cry from saying the legal owners have not got their legal right because of disobedience. I am not blind. I can read the text of both verses.

Jos13 Now Joshua was old, advanced in years. And the Lord said to him: “You are old, advanced in years, and there remains very much land yet to be possessed. 2 This is the land that yet remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all that of the Geshurites, 3 from Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward (which is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the Philistines—the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites; 4 from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorites; 5 the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath; 6 all the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon as far as the Brook Misrephoth, and all the Sidonians Those who say the Jews have possessed, dwelt-in the land God legally gave them are contradicting God who says here they didn't. Stop contradicting God.

And then there's the little matter of the Philistines whose territory wasn't dispossessed of them, even in the time of the great warrior King David.

God gave Abraham the land. It was legally his, then. The Jews will not possess/dwell-in the whole of that which was promised/given until the Lord comes. Only then will all be possesssed and dwelt in.

Saying Jos uses hyperbole makes a better explanation than contracting God or the facts, in my opinion.