And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it. The verse belongs to the book largely written by Israel's leader Joshua. His name means saviour, as Jesus does in Greek. He was one of two of his generation who wholly followed the Lord during the forty years of temptation and wilderness. At about eighty years of age he entered his greatest work leading the children of Israel through the Jordan, dividing the land for them, and setting them in a fair way to conquer all their foes and find the promised rest.
The verse belongs to the chronicle of Israel's battles and conquest of several petty kingdoms involving the killing of people in Canaan. The attack with all Israel was part of victorious work done with the Captain of Jehovah's hosts with him, where the invisible army of God gives triumph as at Jericho the first-fruit of that evil land, while failure to trust brings defeat as at Ai. Faithfulness would soon have given full possession of the land, but general backsliding after Jericho turned years that might have been lived in prosperity into adversity ending again and again in captivity. Sparing the peoples would have perverted mercy by allowing them to continue propagating the same evil.
The verse shows thoroughness in conquering Canaan, never counting the day won while a single enemy breathed but keeping at the work till they were consumed and none remained. That spirit that refused to quit until the work was done is why God answered the prayer for a day of double length at Gibeon. In the surrounding campaign in chapter 10, including 10:28-39 and 10:28-40, the inhabitants of the conquered towns are called souls who were slain by the sword. This shows that a soul means a mortal person or living creature, not an immortal part or an immortal being existing apart as a separate inner man placed inside the body.
Over and over the chapter says souls were slain, and in the original the phrase is dead soul, so a soul can be lifeless and killed. This proves that when Adam became a living soul he himself was the living soul, and before the breath of life entered him he was a lifeless soul. The same refusal to quit until none remain is to be copied in fighting for freedom from school debts until of all the debts there are none remaining.
And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it. The verse belongs to the book largely written by Israel's leader Joshua. His name means saviour, as Jesus does in Greek. He was one of two of his generation who wholly followed the Lord during the forty years of temptation and wilderness. At about eighty years of age he entered his greatest work leading the children of Israel through the Jordan, dividing the land for them, and setting them in a fair way to conquer all their foes and find the promised rest.
The verse belongs to the chronicle of Israel's battles and conquest of several petty kingdoms involving the killing of people in Canaan. The attack with all Israel was part of victorious work done with the Captain of Jehovah's hosts with him, where the invisible army of God gives triumph as at Jericho the first-fruit of that evil land, while failure to trust brings defeat as at Ai. Faithfulness would soon have given full possession of the land, but general backsliding after Jericho turned years that might have been lived in prosperity into adversity ending again and again in captivity. Sparing the peoples would have perverted mercy by allowing them to continue propagating the same evil.
The verse shows thoroughness in conquering Canaan, never counting the day won while a single enemy breathed but keeping at the work till they were consumed and none remained. That spirit that refused to quit until the work was done is why God answered the prayer for a day of double length at Gibeon. In the surrounding campaign in chapter 10, including 10:28-39 and 10:28-40, the inhabitants of the conquered towns are called souls who were slain by the sword. This shows that a soul means a mortal person or living creature, not an immortal part or an immortal being existing apart as a separate inner man placed inside the body.
Over and over the chapter says souls were slain, and in the original the phrase is dead soul, so a soul can be lifeless and killed. This proves that when Adam became a living soul he himself was the living soul, and before the breath of life entered him he was a lifeless soul. The same refusal to quit until none remain is to be copied in fighting for freedom from school debts until of all the debts there are none remaining.