Shadow of the Mountain: Exodus
By Cliff Graham
Caleb and the Hebrew army await the siege of yet another
fortress that stands between them and their Promised Land. As he prepares his army to face the remnant
of the race of giants in the land, Caleb recounts his early life to his nephew,
Othniel. To his great surprise, Othniel discovers
that Caleb’s story is not one of slavery to the Egyptians like his Hebrew
brothers, but rather a story of deliverance from the charms of living among
royalty in Egypt. Born a Kennazite,
Caleb traveled to Egypt when he came of age with the hopes of earning a living
as a skilled laborer. Caleb soon found
himself trying to establish his worth to join the ranks of the king’s royal
guard, the Red Scorpions – a brutal proving that most men either abandon or
perish attempting. Caleb became a
mighty warrior by the training of the Egyptian military, and secured a position
in the palace itself - the king’s personal guard. The day Moses and Aaron entered the courts of
Pharaoh, Caleb was an eyewitness to the nomads’ demands of the king in the name
of the God Yahweh – and soon a sufferer of the plagues the Hebrew God poured
out on the hard-hearted Pharaoh and his people.
Caleb finds the God of the Hebrew people drawing him away from the
fickle gods of Egypt, and calling him to follow these people out of slavery
into the Land of Promise.
What a great fictionalized account of a man the Bible doesn’t
give us much information about – except to tell us of his bravery in the face
of insurmountable odds and that he followed the Lord wholeheartedly. I so enjoyed reading this account of the
Exodus from one who started on the “other side” of the miraculous story. It is well accounted here, that, in truth,
the Lord does seek to make all people His own.
The reader does need to be prepared to read about some of the brutality
of Egyptian military training and of war – the author kept the narrative clean,
but truthful. Overall, I give this book
an A+ - loved it, and I think you will too!
I received a free copy of this book from Bethany House Publishers
in exchange for my honest review.
