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1 | Rapid conquest??? | Joshua | SarahWeaver | 184156 | ||
That the Israelite's movement into Canaan was rapid and that their conquest of that land was quite thorough. | ||||||
2 | Rapid conquest??? | Joshua | stjohn | 184157 | ||
Hi Sarah Weaver: The book of Joshua tells some of this story. It starts off looking like Joshua and the boys are really taking care of business. They defeat Jerico and Ai But soon after they sort of trip on a brick. And, in the 9th chapter we have the Gibeonite deception. The Gibeonites fooled Joshua and his men into thinking that they were Just visiting from a far country. So, old Josh agreed to a treaty with them and didn't destroy them as God commanded. This would really come back to bite them to. But lets move on to the 12th chapter where we have a list of all the kings of the kingdoms that Joshua defeated, 31 in all I think. Now that looks pretty good but then in the 13th chapter we have God showing old Josh, and he is old now by the way, that there is a lot of land still to be conquered. In the end Israel never really occupied more then a small fraction of the land that God actually promised them. 200 or so years down the road we have GIdeon in the book of Judges fighting the Midianites. Then in another 200 years or so we have King David fighting a whole host of enemies. Israel even today has a tenuous hold on the land they certainly didn't do a thorough job on that one at all. I hope that helps. God's peace stj |
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