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Book 6 Poster 6
Conquest and Consolidation
Securing the land and settling the land
These are my key memory triggers for Joshua.
Ok, here is where my artistic license took over a bit. If you look in the back of most Bibles you find a map of Canaan divided among the twelve tribes with the sea on the left, Manasseh, Gad, and Reuben to the right. I've turned mine so the sea is on the right and Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh are on the left. In the lower left hand corner you see that I have marked north at the bottom and south at the top, east on the left and west on the right. I did this to stay consistent with my other pictures. In the top left corner you see the pillars of Egypt. Artistically speaking, things in the past are further away and come toward the foreground where in this case you find cows and flowers with bees since this was the land of milk and honey and a great vineyard. Just a bit of artistic humor.
The land is divided by tribe and indicated according to the tribal colors given to their banners in Numbers. Reubens tribe were first to cross the river to fight so the little tiny figure leading the mass troops across the Jordan is red. If you look very closely you will see the ark of the covenant and the stone altar at that crossing point as well. You can also see the red cord hanging from the window in the wall where the harlots family was to be protected because she hid the spies. There are kings and other figures running away in fear as they are being invaded.
Also at the bottom you will see a key to the cities of refuge and judgment and the Levite's cities. I've marked these as approximate, possible, and unknown locations.
2 comments:
Like the colors!
The colors show where the land was divided by tribe and the tribes obtained their colors when I gave them each a flag or banner color when they did their census in the book of Numbers. Later those colors will fade when the boundaries go away. Yes I am a bit nuts.
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