Joshua 10:4

for it hath made peace The enterprise was directed primarily not against Joshua, but against Gibeon which had made peace with him. Comp. Joshua 9:15.

When in describing the assault on Lachish the writer of the Book of Joshua tells us it was the second daybefore it succeeded, he undesignedlyleads us to suspect that Lachish was a stronghold; and on consulting other portions of the history of the Jews we discover that suspicion to be confirmed; and on the whole a coincidence results very characteristic of truth and accuracy, and this in a narrative full of the miraculous. Blunt's Undesigned Coincidences, pp. 107, 108.