_Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua._ TO ARMS! TO ARMS! The greatest poet of Greece has sung in stately numbers the deeds of heroes whom his race adored. We listen to their counsels, we hear their battle shouts, we see their awful blows. Yet a... [ Continue Reading ]
_Come up _. .. _ quickly, and save us, and help us._ HELP! HELP! The chapter opens with a cry from Jerusalem, the summons of Adoni-zedek--“To arms! To arms!” Here we have another and a very different cry, a cry from Gibeon; a cry to Joshua for help. I. The trouble of the Gibeonites. They are in so... [ Continue Reading ]
_The sun stood still, and the moon stayed._ THE BATTLE OF BETHHORON In some respects this victory had a special significance. In the first place, it had a most important bearing on the success of the whole enterprise; its suddenness, its completeness, its manifold grandeur being admirably fitted to... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bring out those five kings._ THE PROSTRATE KINGS The kings of the Canaanites fled and hid themselves, but the Divine vengeance followed them; and after the rout of their hosts was completed they themselves were taken and put to death. Before this, however, they were humbled in the sight of Israel... [ Continue Reading ]
_All these kings and their laud did Joshua take at one time, because the Lord _. .. _ fought for Israel._ DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY I. God has an indisputable right to dispense his favours to what persons and in what proportions he pleases. As the sole proprietor, it is His to dispose of. 1. Worldly goo... [ Continue Reading ]