This chapter starts with an ominous phrase. " But the children of Israel committed a trespass . . . ." It comes as a shadow of a cloud over a sunlit landscape. What a triumph Israel had just enjoyed at Jericho. But that is all to change because of one man's sin. This message is the first in a week-long series of messages preached in Rhiwderin Free Presbyterian outreach in Wales where Rev Richard Monteith labours.