Dale Ralph Davis on Joshua III
Ralph's take on the movement of Joshua—from divine initiative, via a ‘hinge’ of three or four verses, through to a response by the people—made a comparison that would not have occurred to me in a month of Sundays: he pointed out that this is exactly how Romans is structured!
Both passages give us a record of Yahweh's (the God of Israel's) faithfulness to his people in both Joshua 1-21 and Romans 1-11. Both passages contain thematic statements that lead us right to the heart of what is going on which include the main ideas raised so far (Josh 21:43-45 and Rom 11:33-36). Both passages contain statements regarding the responsibility of Yahweh's people (Josh 22-24 and Rom 12-16).
All this was spoken by Ralph Davis at bullet-like speed in a Southern US accent, whizzing by at such a pace that I really wondered whether I was hearing it right or simply dreaming thoughts about Joshua that showed I hadn't yet had my Monday morning coffee.
I did like Ralph's suggestion that it was only people from the Northern States of the USA that would refer to it as a ‘Civil’ War (that's the one in the 19th century United States, not the one in the book of Joshua, which was a war of the settlement of Canaan by Israel).