Text: Joshua 24:13
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 6:10
Subject: conquest fulfillment
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment
Significance: Deuteronomy 6:10 promises that God will bring Israel into "a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build," and Joshua 24:13 confirms the fulfillment: "I gave you a land for which you did not labor and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them." Both texts use the formulaic contrast between divine gift and human non-effort—cities "you did not build" (לֹא בָנִיתָ, lo vanita). Joshua's farewell speech deliberately echoes the Deuteronomic promise to show that what Moses anticipated, God has now accomplished. The verbal correspondence signals to Israel that the conquest constitutes the verifiable fulfillment of the Deuteronomic blessings, grounding their obligation to serve the LORD in demonstrated covenant faithfulness.