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Joshua 9

the book of joshua
Joshua (with possible additions) · c. 1405–1385 BC
Chapter the Ninth
And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof; 
That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. 
And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, 
They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; 
And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy. 
And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us. 
And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you? 
And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye? 
And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, 
And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth. 
Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us. 
This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy: 
And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey. 
And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD. 
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. 
And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them. 
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim. 
And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes. 
But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. 
This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them. 
And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them. 
And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us? 
Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. 
And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing. 
And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do. 
And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not. 
And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose. 
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Chuck Smith on Joshua 9

Verse by verse, the C2000, 1979 to 1985 series. Permission granted by The Word For Today.

Chapter introduction

This time shall we turn to the book of Joshua, chapter nine as we begin our study this evening.

Now the children of Israel had conquered Jericho and Ai, which were strong cities. The kings that were in the land of Canaan where they were coming, felt that their only hope of stopping this migration of these people into the land would be by a combined effort, pooling all of their armies, all of their resources in one massive assault against Israel. Now this strategy was really prompted by the fact that the Gibeonites, which did cover an area of several cities, had determined that their only hope of survival was by a peace treaty.

So he starts out the ninth chapter, the first three verses talking about the kings that were getting together to present a united front against this invasion. Lest they would just be picked off kingdom by kingdom, they felt that they should all get together. Then, beginning with verse four, they tell of this Gibeonite conspiracy to develop a peace treaty with the Israelites as they were coming into the land.

Now the Gibeonites had heard of how God had delivered these people out of Egypt, and how He had destroyed the Egyptians. They had heard of how the kings of Og and Sihon, of their kingdoms on the other side of Jordan, had been conquered by Israel. They heard, of course, that Jericho had fallen, that Ai had fallen. So they determined that their best course of action was to make a peace treaty. However, they also knew that these people that were coming into the land, the Israelites, had no intention of making any peace treaties with the inhabitants of the land. For they were under the orders of God to utterly drive out all of the inhabitants of the land, to destroy, to drive out, not to make any covenant with them.

Deuteronomy, chapter seven, God commands them not to make any covenant with those in the land. So they knew that their only hope of making a covenant was by a disguise which they perpetrated. They got some fellows who put on some old, ragged clothes, old clodded shoes, they had some old wine skins that were falling to pieces, that they bound up. They had some dry moldy bread. So they came to the camp of Israel, and they said that, "We have come a long journey. But the fame of your God has spread through the world, and we've come to make peace with you."

They said, "How do we know that you're not our neighbors?" They said, "Oh, listen when we left home this bread was hot in our hands, and now look at it, it's all dry and moldy. That's how far we've come. Our shoes were new on our feet, but look how ragged they are, and we've really come a long way."

Verse 14

So the children of Israel took of their victuals, [and inquired not of the Lord,] or sought not to counsel from the mouth of the Lord (9:14).

And they made this covenant or peace treaty with the Gibeonites, and they swore unto them by God that they would have sort of a mutual defense pact that they would be allied together.

So as the children of Israel moved on from Ai, they started coming into the area of the kingdom of the Gibeonites, these cities. So as they started to deploy the troops to attack the cities, the men said, "Oh no, no you can't do that."

They said, "What do you mean?"

They said, "We've just made a pact with you, and you've sworn to us by God that you would not attack us." So they honored the pact that they had made. They realized that they had been deceived. But they honored the pact that they had made with the Gibeonites; however, the people began to murmur against Joshua because of his strategic blunder.

It is interesting to note that this is really the second mistake that Joshua made as a leader. The first mistake was in the case of Ai where they sent up only a few thousand troops, and the men of Ai came out against them and defeated them. Now how that when Joshua cried unto the Lord, the Lord told him the reason for the defeat was because of the sin that was in the camp. That one of the children of Israel had taken of the accursed thing out of the spoils of Jericho, which were all to go to God. So Joshua then sought the Lord, got rid of the sin, and the Lord directed them then on how the conquest of Ai should go.

Now the problem with Ai was his failure to pray and seek counsel from God before they deployed the troops to attack the city. The same problem existed here. It was a failure to pray and inquire of God concerning the Gibeonites. They just looked at the outward circumstances. They saw the dry, moldy bread and the ragged clothes, and they just were deceived.

Now had they sought counsel from God, had he come to Eleazar the high priest and inquired of the Lord concerning these people, the Lord would've shown to them that these people were fakes. They would've realized that these men were just seeking to disguise themselves as having come on a long journey. But in reality they were fakes, but the Lord would've revealed that. They inquired not of the Lord. Their mistake was that of failure to seek God's counsel. It got them into an ungodly alliance.

How many times we found ourselves in ungodly situations because we failed to seek God first. Oh, for sure when we get into these conditions, then we seek God like everything. But if we would only seek God first, we could be spared so many of these tragic experiences that we encounter in life. So the failure to seek God's guidance led them into this alliance with the Gibeonites.

But having once made it, they honored it. However, Joshua called them and said, "All right you guys why did you deceive us like this?"

They said, "Hey, we knew that God was with you, that God was turning the land over to you, and we feared for our lives, and we felt that the only way we could survive was by this little ruse."

Joshua said, "All right but as a result of this you fellas are gonna have to be the hewers of wood and become our servants."

They said, "That's fine, we'll agree to that, we'll be your servants. We will serve you but we're just glad to be alive." So the people of Gibeon, and the cities of Gibeon were spared.

Now the names of the city of the Gibeonites are listed there. In the listing of the names in verse seventeen, the last name Kirjathjearim is an interesting name and city, because it was at Kirjathjearim that the Ark of the Covenant was kept up until the time of David when he moved it from there to Jerusalem. So one of the cities of the Gibeonites became the place where the Ark of the Covenant was kept.

Now when these five kings heard that the Gibeonites had made this league with the children of Israel, then they decided to attack the Gibeonites, more or less, as traitors. So they came against the Gibeonites.

Commentary on Joshua 9

Whosoever Will · The Whosoever Study Bible’s verse commentary

Joshua 9:1

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:2

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:3

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:4

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:5

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:6

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:7

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:8

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:9

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:10

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:11

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:12

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
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Joshua 9:13

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
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Joshua 9:14

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
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Joshua 9:15

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:16

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
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Joshua 9:17

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
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Joshua 9:18

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
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Joshua 9:19

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
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Joshua 9:20

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:21

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:22

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
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Joshua 9:23

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
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Joshua 9:24

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
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Joshua 9:25

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
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Joshua 9:26

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30

Joshua 9:27

Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout. The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat. Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
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