Thursday, July 13, 2023

book joshua and introduction

 introduction: the end of this book will say "You did not do it with your own sword" so the start that contains hints of sword use in jericho and when they lost a battle are fiction so to prevent error we must skip the parts that can cause error to the true part:

BOOK Joshua chapter ONE:  Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 24,6, "When I brought your nation out of Egypt, they came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen, as far as the Red Sea. 7 But they cried to the Lord for help, and I put darkness between them and the Egyptians; I brought the sea over them and covered them. You saw with your own eyes what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time. 8 “‘I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought against you, but "I destroyed them" from before you, and you took possession of their land. 9 When Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, prepared to fight against Israel, he sent for Balaam son of Beor to put a curse on you. 10 But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand. 11 “‘Then you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The citizens of Jericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites, but, 12 I sent the hornet ahead of you, which drove them out before you also the two Amorite kings. "You did not do it with your own sword and bow." 13 So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant."
note: this is the story from the exodus without the foreign books and the error of war and conquest because not with your sword.
note: "13 books describe things that were done" not prophecies. source against apion 1.8.






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