Passages That Make Your Eyes Glaze Over

The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south. And their south boundary ran from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward...

Joshua 15:1-2 English Standard Version

I'm reading through Joshua right now and it's hard for me to read chapter after chapter of place names and borders and seas and hill countries that I cannot visualize in my head.

Does anyone know a good resource (preferably online) of really detailed Biblical maps by era so that as I'm reading these passages I can print them out and draw the boundaries myself?

Otherwise my eyes glaze over and I glean nothing from these portions of Scripture, except perhaps that God is a god of detail and that the Old Testament is not only a spiritual encouargement but an accurate historical record.

When a River Flows Toward the Sky

"...And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap."

Joshua 3:13 English Standard Version

Wow, can you imagine? Can you just visualize that? Imagine a river flowing, flowing and then BOOM it hits and invisible wall and starts pooling up against it, swirling higher and higher.

That must have been an amazing sight. It reminds me of the parting of the Red Sea scene from The Prince of Egpyt. I love God's "flair."

When Even Evil Can't Win

For they did not come to meet you with bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim to pronounce a curse on you. However, the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.

Deuteronomy 23:4-5 New International Version

The beauty and tenderness of God's affection really struck me in this passage. God took what was evil and not only protected His children from it but turned it into good, simply because He loves them.

How beautiful.