Synopsis:
The king of Jerusalem Adonizedek (great name), is now
worried because Ai was a greater city than Jerusalem. So he calls 5 neighboring
kings together and the plan is to attack Gibeon. It doesn’t work. they are
routed and killed because a bunch of their men die in a hailstorm. The kings
take refuge in a cave. In the meantime, Joshua asks for the sun and moon to
stand still so that the people of Gibeon can take revenge on the people who
attacked them. Meanwhile the kings are found by Joshua’s men, hanged and dumped
back into the cave. Joshua then takes all the cities and kills everyone in
them.
Or, to put it another way:
Neighboring kingdoms go on the offensive and fail. Joshua
continues his genocidal rampage.
Favorite bit:
Joshua 10: 11, 12 – basically – I loved the hailstorm and
the sun and the moon bit. Very cool.
Least favorite bit:
All the rest. It is basically a fairly long chapter and all
that happens is a recitation of cities that Joshua destroys “utterly and all
the souls that were therein.” (Joshua 10:37).
It seems REALLY a bit much to kill every man, woman and child in 5 towns
(7 if you count the other 2 cities destroyed in previous chapters).
Moral Lesson:
Not sure exactly – again, this is about a brutal despot bent
on killing anyone and everyone he comes across.
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