{"id":6994,"date":"2023-08-26T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T07:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=6994"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:30:23","slug":"1-chronicles-727-nun-his-son-and-joshua-his-son-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=6994","title":{"rendered":"1 Chronicles 7:27: “Nun his son, and Joshua his son.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joshua, from the tribe of Ephraim, was Moses’ right hand man. He was the son of a man named Nun. The word Nun<\/em> means posterity<\/em>, which seems to point us to his son Joshua. We know almost nothing about this father, but some have suggested that a man can be known by looking at his children. If this is true, then we can make a few assumptions about Joshua’s father. He must have invested much spiritual time into Joshua as a young man. Even the name he chose for his son speaks of his close, personal relationship with the Lord. Joshua literally means God the Savior<\/em>. Joshua had the heart of a servant but was also a great warrior and man of God, eventually leading the people of God into the Promised Land.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible Nun had the same heart toward his child as the parents of this modern day girl did. Her story encourages parents and believers that they can influence kids for good. In a rural area of New Mexico, Sandra was raised in an adobe house without electricity or running water. Her father had to drive her mother 200 miles to the closest hospital in El Paso to give birth to her. They lived too far away to send Sandra to school, so her parents homeschooled her during her early school days. This allowed her to grow up in a very wholesome environment. One of the things her parents included in her education were trips for the whole family to walk through every state capitol west of the Mississippi. Sandra was later admitted to Stanford University where she graduated with honors. She then became the first woman to be seated in the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Sandra Day O\u2019Connor reached this position in part because her parents taught her to see herself as created in the image of God, which meant she could be all that God wanted her to be.<\/p>\n

“LORD, help us to reach out to the young among us today and give them an encouraging word or action so that they might see You more clearly through us.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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1 Chronicles 7 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0Now the sons of Issachar\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father\u2019s house,\u00a0to wit\u00a0<\/em>, of Tola:\u00a0they were\u00a0<\/em>valiant men of might in their generations; whose number\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers,\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand\u00a0men:\u00a0<\/em>for they had many wives and sons.\u00a05<\/sup>And their brethren among all the families of Issachar\u00a0were<\/em>valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand. 6<\/sup>\u00a0The sons\u00a0<\/em>of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of\u00a0their<\/em>fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.\u00a08<\/sup>And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>the sons of Becher.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour,\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>twenty thousand and two hundred.\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour,\u00a0were<\/em>seventeen thousand and two hundred\u00a0soldiers\u00a0<\/em>, fit to go out for war\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>battle.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Hushim, the sons of Aher.\u00a0\u00a013<\/sup> The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. 14<\/sup>\u00a0The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but<\/em>his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0And Machir took to wife\u00a0the sister\u00a0<\/em>of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister\u2019s name\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>Maachah;) and the name of the second\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>Sheresh; and his sons\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>Ulam and Rakem.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0And the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam. 20<\/sup>\u00a0And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, 21<\/sup>\u00a0And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath\u00a0that were\u00a0<\/em>born in\u00a0that<\/em>land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him. 23<\/sup>\u00a0And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.\u00a024<\/sup>\u00a0(And his daughter\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0And Rephah\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,\u00a027<\/sup>\u00a0Non his son, Jehoshua his son.\u00a0\u00a0 28<\/sup>\u00a0And their possessions and habitations\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>, Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.\u00a0 30<\/sup> The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.\u00a031<\/sup>\u00a0And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the father of Birzavith.\u00a032<\/sup>\u00a0And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.\u00a033<\/sup>\u00a0And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>the children of Japhlet.\u00a034<\/sup>\u00a0And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.\u00a035<\/sup>And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.\u00a036<\/sup>\u00a0The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,\u00a037<\/sup>\u00a0Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.\u00a038<\/sup>And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.\u00a039<\/sup>And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.\u00a040<\/sup>\u00a0All these\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>the children of Asher, heads of\u00a0their\u00a0<\/em>father\u2019s house, choice\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>to battle\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>twenty and six thousand men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joshua, from the tribe of Ephraim, was Moses’ right hand man. He was the son of a man named Nun. The word Nun means posterity, which seems to point us to his son Joshua. We know almost nothing about this father, but some have suggested that a man can be known by looking at his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6994"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16316,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions\/16316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}