Sending Spies to View the Land

A Familiar Story in Joshua 2

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Joshua is the new Moses, and among his first acts of leadership is to send some men on a spy mission. He “sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, ‘Go, view the land, especially Jericho’” (Josh. 2:1).

Now, as Bible readers, we’ve seen that kind of story before.