Book of Joshua

=== Faith and wrath ===
The overarching theological theme of the Deuteronomistic history is faithfulness and God's mercy, and their opposites, faithlessness and God's wrath. In the [[Book of Judges]], the [[Books of Samuel]], and the [[Books of Kings]], the [[Israelites]] become faithless and God ultimately shows his anger by sending his people into exile.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Laffey|first=Alice L|chapter=Deuteronomistic history|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k85JKr1OXcQC&pg=PA337|editor=Orlando O. Espín |editor2=James B. Nickoloff|title=An introductory dictionary of theology and religious studies|publisher=Liturgical Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-8146-5856-7}}</ref> But in Joshua Israel is obedient, Joshua is faithful, and God fulfills his promise and gives them the land as a result.<ref name=Pressler />{{rp|3–4}} Yahweh's war campaign in [[Canaan]] validates Israel's entitlement to the land<ref name=McConville2001>{{Cite book|last=McConville|first=Gordon|chapter=Joshua|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ef1QEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA158|editor=John Barton|editor2=John Muddiman|title=Oxford Bible Commentary|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2001|isbn=978-0-19-875500-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordbiblecomme0000unse}}</ref>{{rp|158–159}} and provides a paradigm of how Israel was to live there: twelve tribes, with a designated leader, united by [[covenant (historical)|covenant]] in warfare and in worship of Yahweh alone at a single sanctuary, all in obedience to the commands of [[Moses]] as found in the [[Book of Deuteronomy]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Coogan|first=Michael D.|title=A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlb1PQAACAAJ}}</ref>{{rp|162}}