in which I believe the argument is appropriately considered. Using the term ‘mission’ positions the following argument in the wider discussion of biblical mission. Too often the concept of mission in the OT has either been generally denied, or the OT has been used as a short prologue to a discussion of biblical mission, which usually means mission according to the NT.3 Furthermore, many discussions of mission in the OT tend towards a focus on a handful of texts that appear to address more explicitly