Synopsis:
Joshua shows his strategic abilities and now sends 30,000
men to lie in ambush while he and the others encourage the men of Ai to come
out and fight. When the men of Ai come out, Joshua and his band run away, and
the people of Ai follow. Which is when the 30,000 men lying in ambush take the city
and burn it to the ground. Joshua and his men turn around and continue the
fight killing everyone and hanging the king in a tree. After killing all the
men and women and taking the cattle and gold, they build a alter out of stones
and Joshua writes down the entire Law of Moses and then recites it aloud, the
blessings and the curses.
Or, to put it another way:
Since it took over 30,000 people to conquer Ai, it is pretty
clear now that Joshua set up the 2,000 men he sent out before to fail in order
to make a point that if you steal you will harm everyone. Regardless, having
made that point, he is now free to properly lay seige to Ai, which he does with
a great bit of military strategy.
Favorite Bit:
Joshua 8:34 “And afterward he read all the words of the law,
the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the
law.” I just find it funny that the book
of laws has both blessings and cursings.
Least favorite bit:
Joshua 8:29 – finding out that when they took the king, they
hung him and then threw his carcass at the entrance to the city they had just
burned. It’s kind of gross and brutal.
Moral Lesson:
Just because someone is a crazy homicidal dictator doesn’t
mean they can’t think strategically.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Your comments and feedback are appreciated, however, please be aware that all comments are moderated. Please abide by the rules of this site before posting comments. Failure to abide by the rules of this site will result in your posts being deleted and you being banned from the site.
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.