Joshua 5 | Victory, Failure, and the God Who Fights for Israel

0:00 All right, good. Tuesday morning. We're back, man. Our Joshua series. Love it. We're going to tackle chapters 9 through 11 last time. Remember what we talked about? Yeah, I think we're talking about the campaign through Jericho. Nice. Yeah. And then kind of their Aiken. Yeah. And the defeat at AI. Yeah, the victory at AI and then kind of the rededication is that covenant. Renewal. Yeah. Chapter 8, I think that's, I'm glad you brought that up, 'cause I think that's important, 'cause it kind of like sets apart chapters 5 through 8 as this unit. Chapter 5, like everyone's getting circumcised. We're celebrating the Passover. Oh yeah, that happens before Jericho, doesn't it?

0:41 And and then this happens in Chapter 8, this renewal. They're at Mount Evil and Mount Gerizim, the blessings, the curses, just like Moses. So it's kind of this pivotal point that that frames a lot of what we're gonna talk about. Today, Amen, you would think, but after this, they're probably going to be like straight as a narrow no, no more hiccups, right? No, that, that's really good foreshadowing. We'll see some hiccups right away. So I hope you're excited. Let's go ahead and take it to the next level. Let's fire up that twanga music. From the hearts of the Low Country in South Carolina. It's the Take Two podcast where we take theology to the next level.

1:27 And so Joshua, 9 through 11, what we're going to talk about today, I thought maybe we could back out, zoom out, get the overview. 30 foot thousand level. I love it. And then get on the ground after that and and dive. Into troops. That's right. So. Literally speaking. Yeah, we're hey, military we're we're, we're hitting all the, all the beats of Joshua. And so if we're looking at Chapter 9, it's a really good illustration of Israel trying to do things without Yahweh's help. We see them pay the consequence. You kind of alluded to that. And then the rest of our time, chapters 10 through halfway through 1111, verse 15, we see Yahweh with Israel and the success they have in these campaigns that that they go through. Chapter 10 talks a lot about the southern campaign. In the beginning of Chapter 11 talks about the Northern campaign, which Tees everything up to Joshua 1116 through 23. The rest of the chapter.

2:23 That's really a broad summary of all that they achieved. And then after that we get into the less talked about. They don't. They don't make flannel graphs for casting lots and you know all the land divvied up. Yeah, yeah, That that's always been a confusing time. It's good. So we. Should just skip it. Yeah, just skip it. Probably. Probably not even in there for a real reason. So I'm looking forward to getting to those just 'cause they're less talked about today, we'll have familiar, familiar stories that you probably heard talk about. Some good discussion, I think, you know, teasing it. The sun stood still. What's that mean, you know? Yeah, that is a that's. A lot of good theories out there. So anyway, let's get into Joshua Chapter 9.

3:05 Can you read for us verses 1 and 2? Yeah, it says now it came about when all the kings who are beyond the Jordan, in the Hill Country and in the lowland and on all the coasts of the great sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the parasite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, heard of it, that they gathered themselves together with 1 accord to fight with Joshua and with Israel. Thank you, Michael, and if you remember this, a chapter 5 starts similarly in the fact that the Amorites heard that what the Lord did and they had a response. You know, here we see that all the kings heard of the Israelites and they had this response and their response is let's band together.

3:50 It's it's kind of our our shot at making making this happen. And and we'll see this again, I think another time or two. But it kind of is a way Joshua is broken up in verses 3 through 15. We see really Israel drop the ball, really show a lack of wisdom of Yahweh and it all centers around Gibeon. Smart people, man. Yeah, pretty tricky. So so I was looking as a gibeon 6 miles northwest of Jerusalem. If you're looking at looking at a mess. That's pretty close. Now, pretty close. Yeah. Yeah. And so they, they, they seem to know, like they know what's going on. If you read Deuteronomy 7, Israel supposed to devote every person in Canaan to destruction. That's like in the Torah, the Torah was just re read, re expressed, rewritten by Joshua.

4:39 So maybe these rumors are starting and, and they, they've heard of Jericho, probably an AI and they're like, they're not just like killing the, the men or it's like, this is bad for everyone. You know what I mean? No, they could have fled, right? That that's probably an option. Yeah, for sure. If, if the Gibeonites had said, you know what, we're not going to try to face off of Yahweh, we're going to flee and move out. It's not as though Joshua would have pursued them to, probably. Not yeah, they're out of the land cause yeah, if they know that, hey, if you're in the land, you're free game. Just get out. One of your options is leave the land. Right, right. So I just my apologetic mind because there are arguments that this was a genocide and this that's if if leaving the land is an option, then it's not technically like if China.

5:25 Came here and was late like we and they're like, we just, we just what Alabama? You could just all right, you can have it. We're not going to go there. If we're like, hey, we're, we're just laying down. Right, right, right. Not that we would give it, but right, Right. Yes, yeah. And what I think is interesting is I don't know how much could be in like new the Torah or they're like, they've heard these things or not. They're not that far away from from some of where the Israelites have been. But in Deuteronomy 20, it talks about making treaties with people and they've got to keep those treaties. And I don't know if they knew that or not. Or they're like, hey, this is our own way. Maybe maybe they knew some of the Torah and we're using that to their advantage. So anyway, either way, they they knew they were savvy enough to not pretend like they were just a few miles away, but that they were really, really far.

6:12 Away. And would you say that Joshua and the children of Israel, we're in a different relationship or different type of relationship with Yahweh right now than what someone might be if they're buying a home? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I remember being young and reading this and thinking like, I mean, seems kind of harsh of a penalty for them. But and then I, I think there's two different two different perspectives. We're about to read the verses, but you're probably familiar with the story, but you could have their perspective like, wow, look what happened to Joshua when they didn't consult God with this decision.

6:53 We should consult God for every single decision we make. We'll let God make the decision on whether we should buy a house. We'll make, we'll let God make a decision on which horse we should ride. We'll let God make the decision on which car we should buy because look what happened to Joshua. You could go there or you could be like, wow, God, God was really harsh with with them. And, you know, they got, they got tricked, but, you know, they're kind of reprimanded for it. But I think, you know, the key difference is, you know, if you listen to our first couple episodes, like God has appeared in, you know, the Angel of Lord to Joshua, talk to him about it. They do have the Urim and the yeah. And so there's like no reason for them not to consult God. Like this is, you know, what they've been told to do directly.

7:45 Totally. Yeah, and it's exactly right. I'm going to go ahead and read verses 3 through 6 gets out the crux of of what Gibeon did. But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and AI, they on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn out sacks for their donkeys and wines. Gets worn out and torn and mended with worn out patch sandals on their feet and worn out clothes. That's the theme. Worn out, worn out, worn out, worn out four times. And all their provisions were dry and crumbly, even made like their bread crumbly. Like that is like so good, like kept it out, so smart. And they went to Joshua in the camp of Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, we have come from a distant country, so now make a covenant with us. But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, perhaps yield among us, then how can we make a covenant with you? I think this is good 'cause they actually thought this could be true.

8:33 Like it's not like they didn't totally think it through anyway. We we can stop there. You can kind of see what they did that that deception was kind of really thought out through and through. Not only is that their deception. I'll, I'll read a couple more verses here. Verse 9 says they said to, they said to him from a very distant country, your servants have come because of the name of Yahweh, your God. For we've heard a report of him and all that he did in Egypt and all that he did to the 2 kings of the Amorites who are beyond the Jordan, to Sihan, the king of Hasheman and to OG the king of Bashan who lived in the Ashtaroth. And so they even like invoke the name of Yahweh like we've heard of Yahweh. And so we came to you that that's sounds really good to your point where it's like maybe you start to empathize and be like, man, that is kind of harsh, but but you're right. I think Joshua, the story of Joshua, maybe not as known as some other places, but it does emphasize the holiness of God at the same time.

9:31 Just just be obedient. Like, just be obedient you. Know just submit this stuff like yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. And what what's interesting is this confession of faith, if you compare it to Rahab's, it's very, very similar. We see Rahab follows through with a certain action. You know, there's one thing to confess, something another thing to then. We give Rahab it up. Family A treaty. Right, right, right. You see, so you so you can see some of these like similarities here key verse 14, especially the second-half. You want to read that one for us? Verse 14 Yes. So the men of Israel took some of their provisions and did not ask for the counsel of the Lord.

10:13 Yeah, and and you, you alluded to this. That kind of gets to it. They did. We read in verses 7 and 8, they actually did a little due diligence. Like they talked about it, like maybe you're trying to trick, maybe you didn't come into some land. Like they thought about that. It's not that they didn't think things through. It's that they didn't pray or ask y'all, because it probably did seem overly straightforward, overly easy. And most of us probably not like most of us. Like when we're in doubt, I'm going to pray a lot. When I feel like it's a, you know, given. Maybe I'm not as given to pray as much. Yeah, I'll just say based on my earlier remarks, I'm not saying don't pray and ask God for wisdom. That. You would that you would make. But yeah. Yeah. But here, you know, they didn't even seek the counsel of the Lord when they had, you know, divine lots that they could cast to see. Yeah, they had.

10:59 Are we being tripped? Right there. Yeah, man, let's kind of, we'll pivot a little bit and Israel kind of they have this concern. I think this is a good conundrum to think through where they're like, man, we want to honor Yahweh. Read verses 18 and 19 for us. All right. It says the sons of Israel did not strike them because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the Yahweh, the God of Israel. And the whole congregation grumbled against the leaders, but all the leaders said to the whole congregation, we have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them. Yeah, so they found out that that Gibeon was actually their neighbor. But the leaders were like, we we promised before Yahweh.

11:41 The people were like, So what they lied to you promise is broken, like I'll just come. But they were like, no, no, no, that's we don't want to like do another wrong on top of it, right, 'cause I think in our Western minds, a lot of us would be like, yes. Exactly. It makes sense. Totally. But that wasn't their reaction. They're like, no, we're not gonna. God kind of honored. That yeah, exactly. Yeah, 'cause I 'cause I, it goes against, I think maybe how some of us would think, 'cause they were deceived, but they were saying, hey, we messed up. They kind of owned it and then lived in obedience in the midst of a rough situation rather than taking the pragmatic way, which in America we're all about pragmatism. If there's like, if you can justify it.

12:23 So anyway, where do they land? The solution would be, you know what, you just see this, you're going to be wood cutters. You're going to cut our wood. You're going to draw water for us. You'll be, you'll kind of be our slaves in that regard. And then, you know, we get to the end of of this section 22 through 27. We'll read here kind of a recap of the whole story, but it says in verse 27, but Joshua made them that day. Cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord altar of Yahweh to this day and the place that he should choose. And what I find interesting here they were they would do this for the House of God. Isn't isn't this interesting? Maybe there's some redemption in this, like they were deceptive, but I don't know.

13:07 But they're probably gonna hear and see sacrifices and really hear a lot of great things and. See God work to Judaism. Yeah, exactly. I think that. If they convert, do they get out of this sentence? I don't know. I, I don't know so in, in so they were cursed in this way, but in a way I think we do see some of God's mercy and who knows how some of that shook out. So that's Chapter 9. We transition in chapter chapter 10 to the Southern campaign. If you read 10 verse one, it's probably familiar to what Chapter 9 was in chapter 5, but go ahead and read that. For us, it says now, it came about when Adonai Zedek, King of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua had captured AI and had utterly destroyed it. Just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to AI and its king, and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were within their land. Keep going.

14:05 Keep. Going yeah, let's. Read that he feared greatly because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than AI and all its men were mighty. Yes, a couple things that are interesting. So we're talking about the King of Jerusalem, Adonize, a deck that kind of sounds like Melchizedek. Isn't that kind of interesting like? And I is like Lord, right? Yeah, exactly. So it's like, I think it's like righteousness of the Lord, whether it's, you know, probably not Yahweh, but it's a it's probably comes through from it's like Jerusalem. That's maybe a theme from previous king. So I think. That's interesting. Exactly Of Jerusalem. Yeah, same town. Same town exactly.

14:46 They this guy, he was fearful. They heard about Jericho AI and turns out Gibeon wasn't like a pushover city. This was a stronghold. Mighty men. This is not good. So he reached out to all these other kings, King of Hebron, Jarmouth, Lakish, Eaglon, and he's like, hey, let's get together and we're actually gonna take Gibeon kind of back. We're gonna like some of this territory that was lost. We're gonna kind of take it back on verse five. I will read this. It says then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmouth, the king of Lakish and the king of Egon gather their forces and went up with all their armies and they camped against Gibeon and made war against it. We see Gibeon say. Joshua, you gotta help us out here. Hey, we tricked you, but we're friends now.

15:28 We're cutting that. We're drawing that water awfully well. Can. You can you help us out? Go ahead and let's read. At least let's read. Let's read verses 8 through 11. There you go, It says the Lord said to Joshua, Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not one of them shall stand before you. So Joshua came upon them suddenly by marching all night from Gilgal, and Yahweh confounded them before Israel, and he slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and pursued them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them as far as Azaca and Makada, as they fled from, As they fled from before Israel, While they were at the descent of Beth Horan, the Lord threw large stones from heaven on them as far as Azaca, and they died. They there were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with sword. A couple things here.

16:29 I think this almost encapsulates like Josh, the book of Joshua in a nutshell. Verse 8 says don't fear them. I'm giving them your hands. That's like shades of like chapter 1, like we see this motif of like be courageous, be strong in the Lord On the very next verse, what's Joshua do? He takes the army and marches. There's like obedience. It's like don't be afraid. Joshua acts in the light of that shows some faith and then we see Yahweh sounds like a warrior here. Sounds more like Jesus Revelation at the end of Revelation than maybe what you're accustomed throwing them the hailstones like doing some damage destroys more than all of Joshua's men.

17:09 That's like amazing. So you see, like all of that wrapped up in 3 little verses. Yeah, that's pretty cool. I'm going to read verses 12 through 14. We'll spend some time talking about this. At that time Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel. And he said, in the sight of Israel, sun sands stand still at Gibeon and moon in the valley of I Jalan. And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is it not written in the book of Joshar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day. For there's been no day like it before or since when Yahweh heeded the voice of a man. For Yahweh fight for Israel, sun stood still. This is the classic verse that if you start reading down rabbit holes, there's a million different explanations, like what was going on here.

18:00 So let's talk about it. You know, do you know, did Earth's rotation just like stop rotating right there? Some people have said maybe there was an eclipse of sorts. Some people look at this and says it seems like the sun stood over here and the moon was over here. Like it couldn't be an eclipse because it seems like there's two geographic places where the sun and the moon. Were how would an eclipse help? Well, I think some people, like some people would say things like, you know, when those cultures, if there's an eclipse, it's like, oh, like it throws the other army into a panic. Like, do you know what I'm saying? Like it's a bad omen. Or even the way like rather being supernatural necessarily, like the sun that literally stood still.

18:43 They would say things like, oh, in the Jerusalem culture, if you saw the sun like that, that meant judgement was upon you or something like that. You know, some people would say, you know, maybe there was this unique cloud cover making it not so hot. So they fought all day. And then some of these there's a bunch of different Canaanite superstitions of bad omens when the sun and moon were in certain spots and that they saw that they would have like maybe not given up. But you know, you see all these things. Have you? Are you familiar with the darkness view? This is what this guy didn't bring the book Dale Davis. He's like, hey, I don't think this is a slam dunk, but I had never heard this. He's like people don't give this credence and Hebrew the the words for stand still, mean, dumb, silent or still. So which activity of the sun and moon is Joshua prohibiting? Most assume it's their movement but he's like maybe it's their shining like sun.

19:37 Keep it dark while we raid them. Keep it. And so this, this is what why he. Yeah, he would say it's a good time to ask for darkness. It would be, you know, almost it's like if they went all night and they're attacking at 7:00 AM, it almost would be like, you might not want a lot more day old. I mean, you know what I mean? Just like that. But he's like, there are problems with that. View 2 verse 13, the way the moon stopped. I I don't know, there's things that don't make it perfect. I had never heard that, so I thought that was interesting to bring up. Did. You want to mention like some type of supernova going off and making it bright? He just mentioned like a couple and he was like, go read these five books if you want to like know, like all the things. Yeah.

20:17 What else have you? Because there is a. You know, I haven't. To me, when I have heard people talk about this, it seems like we always try to find some natural explanation where it lines up. And I'm I'm generally OK with that because a natural phenomenon that's rare, that coincides exactly when God's army needs it to happen, you could still say that's miraculous. Totally. Yeah, right. But I'm not necessarily convinced it was a natural phenomenon. It could have been. It could be as simple as. God just made it light or God just made it dark somehow. He didn't have to have some natural Kerman occurring phenomenon. I think the take away is that God acted here to allow Joshua to be victorious in a way that was kind of unprecedented at the.

21:04 Time I think that's so good where it's like you can everyone else people get like been out over this thing it's like don't miss the main point we see all what God's doing we see it is unique here that even the way it's word verse 14. There's not been a day when the Lord heeded the voice of a man like Joshua cried out. Yahweh was was on board and we see through the story always clearly in charge and all these things. The rest of the chapter is really devoted to the victory. I mean, we could see where it's going. And the five kings are trapped in a cave. Read verse 24 for us. It says, when they brought these kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with them, Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.

21:55 So they came near, and they put their feet on their necks. Isn't that that would be quite like, I mean, you're Israel, you've seen enough, but this is kind of teeing up a bunch more fighting. And this is just like, you know, be strong and courageous. Like look what I've done for you. And and we saw like you always throwing on the hailstones, causing the sun to stand still, that that'd probably be pretty, pretty impactful where I was like, yeah, I think, I think we can we can, we can make this this happen. So anyway, through verse 2728, we kind of see the victory there. The second-half of chapter 10 just shows more and more conquest of the South part of Canaan, six more towns decimated by Israel. Seems like you if you start reading through all this, it seems like a lot of conquering had to be done. It almost makes you wonder and judges one. Like how much more did they have to do? Right.

22:46 Well, even through like Second Samuel there, yes, there's riding the land. So it is crazy. It is crazy. Did they come? Did they sneak back in or these They're just getting the city States and then the but then the in betweens there's like these nomadic people and stuff. It's. It's yeah, I know, but there's so many. Yeah. That's, I think that's part of it. What this one commentator makes this point. I think it's interesting. Is it in chapter 10 and verses 283235373942, we see this phrase about taking the land where they took the land. When we look at in Judges, we see the word they're called to possess the land or occupy the land or to drive out.

23:30 It's like a little bit different verbiage where they took everything, but they didn't necessarily possess or settle or drive out and do all the. I'm sure that would have been challenging to, you know, it's like we got a nice little town here and let's not, you know, but have you ever? Played Risk. I have played Risk. So maybe it's like, you know, on Risk you can like take a continent, but you don't like have all of it. And so then maybe you have the borders of it, but then you need to multiply your troops and, you know, just eliminate all the enemy enemy from that so you can start getting those troop bonuses for that continent that you have. There you go. Yeah, it's it's chapter 10 comes to read verse 42. It kind of, it kind of sums up why Israel was victorious. Joshua captured all these kings and their lands at one time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel. Also great encapsulation, like Joshua was the means but it was because of what Yahweh did.

24:32 It's like you can't escape this theme anywhere. So we covered Chapter 9, Chapter 10. We're shifting Chapter 11 one through 15 is all about the conquest of northern Canaan. If we read, you know, first one, it says when Jabin, king of Azor heard of this and then he acted so kind of the same heading to hear about what's going on. This place, Hazor is located 10 miles north of the Sea of Galilee, supposedly a major force that was close to a major trade route, the Via Maris, Via Maris. And then that that like kind of trade highway that went from Egypt to Mesopotamia and Syria. So if people think archaeologically, this is where it was.

25:16 This was like a major city, major Kingdom in the Syria Palestine area. So this is probably a big deal. In verses one through 5, we see kind of a similar thing. Many kings come together in the north to stand against Israel. All kings if you look where they're at, probably around Galilee. Nazareth. Exactly. And in reading this, you kind of get the idea. Maybe you can read verse four. I think we get the idea that there's a lot of people here. They came out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as the sand that is on the seashore with very many horses and Chariots. Yeah. So it seems a little overwhelming.

25:57 Probably seems like OK, like they had just had this great victory, but probably a little bit a little bit crazy. I think also, yeah, we you mentioned with the horses and the Chariots. So you see all the people and then, you know, Chariots in those days, you know, some people that's right that they got the technology, they got the horses that can run around these these tanks of sorts with the with the Chariots and we really get to the heart of it. I'll read versus 6 through 9. And Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid of them. The same thing for tomorrow. At this time I will give over all of them slain to Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their Chariots with fire. So Joshua and all his warriors came suddenly against them by the waters of Merrim and fell upon them. And Yahweh gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them, and chased them as far as the great Sidon and the Miss Riff off name, and eastward as far as the valley of Mispa. And they struck them until he left, none remaining. And Joshua did to them, just as you always said to him. He humstrung their horses and burned their Chariots with fire. Seems like the least of resources, yeah. Exactly.

27:08 You might look at that and be like, they couldn't use those horses. I I like hamstringing a horse, if you know what I mean. They hamstrung them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's tough on the horses, too. It's not a good day to be A to be horse or chariot. Burn them. You're like, you can keep the Chariots, right? But you know, God told Moses, you know, you're not supposed to accumulate horses and Chariots. I'm in five. That that's like the perfect. It's like they knew that, yeah, going into it maybe where people think this Kingdom of Merrim was one of these kingdoms and Upper Galilee was 4000 feet above sea level. You know, maybe that's where Yahweh LED Joshua, where maybe Chariots would have a little bit hard time, you know, maneuvering. You see these things.

27:49 I don't know, You can always make these, make these guesses. Verses 10 through 15, we kind of get to the end of this northern conquest. Joshua's obedience to God's commands kind of fit with what's been written in the Torah. There's complete destruction, burns one of these cities. If you look throughout Joshua, I think only three cities are explicitly burned. It's Jericho AI in one of these and you might be like why didn't Israel burn all the cities? Probably 'cause they're occupying them. Yes, You got like these great promises in Deuteronomy 6 that you're gonna live in cities that you didn't build. You're gonna like, have these. Olives that you didn't plant. It and it's like, oh man, so that that's why you might, you know, you're not burning down everything.

28:34 Anyway, we see the Torah Moses, you know, was quote UN quote, the lawmaker Joshua is like a law keeper here, like living out the Torah Torah being a model. And so that kind of closes out the northern campaign, which gets us to the last part of chapter, the last half of Chapter 11. Let's let's do this. Can you read the bookends of this section? It's kind of a summary of everything, so 16 and 23. Thus Joshua took all that he had, the Hill Country and all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Araba, the Hill Country of Israel and its lowland, skipping down in 23. So Joshua took the whole land according to all that Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes.

29:23 Thus the land had rest from war. Yeah, we're just finishing eleven. It seems like they did a lot. You're done with the book. That's the end of the. Book, let's close it up and the verses you read, it mentions the Hill Country places in the Negev and the Dead Sea, and then also mentioned places like Mount Hermon and the North. So it is like this summary, like we got the north, we got the South, we got everything in between of no verse 18, I'll read this. It says Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. I think he can read it and be like, we got a Jericho a we're just like motoring through it probably was. Yeah, exactly like any, you know, long war. You just have to think of like how much it wore on them. And in this book I was reading, they like did math based on Caleb 40 when Moses sent him as a spy. And then it says from that in in Joshua, from that time entering Canaan, Joshua was 78.

30:20 It was, you know, 78 years old. He receives his allotment for the language. He's 85. So it's probably around 7 years or so, which is a good number, seven years. Of conquest, yeah, that's your. But it wasn't. Like, this was overnight. They just, like, ransacked. I mean, it seems like they were very successful, but you got to think 7 years of war, man, probably gets old after a while. Yeah, it's like. Seven years without going to the Super Bowl or something like I can't imagine. It you're like unfathomable. So it's a lie. We see more of what Yahweh did. Well. I like these verses. If you want to read verse 19 and 20 it says.

31:01 There was not a city which made peace with the sons of Israel except the Hivites living in Gibeon. They took them all in battle, for it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts to meet Israel in battle, in order that He might utterly destroy them, that they might receive no mercy, but that He might destroy them, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses man. Keeping in mind they had, you know, 400 years of mercy or whatever, you know what I mean? Also of no, if you read just a little bit past this, it says there was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel, only in Gaza, in Gath and in Ashdod in summer Maine, foreshadowing Goliath Gath, right. I guess it was like they cleared the land from these giants, but Anakim bloodline still there.

31:51 But that that's a big deal because that that's the reason they wondered for 40 years like the Anakim. So it's like they that they did, they did that. You read verse 23 inheritance and rest. And I guess I lied. I've got one more chapter. That we'll just. Breeze right through here not 'cause it's not important, but because I think we can summarize it pretty pretty quickly here 'cause this is the classic chapter if you're going to skim your you start reading on your daily Bible and you're. Like OK, I think I. Got this. So yeah, it's a very. Long list of all the kings of the land when the sons of Israel defeated and whose land they possessed.

32:32 And then it just goes on. Starts with Shayan, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and it just goes through. There's Agha Bashan over mountain heart. Yeah. So they're all, they're all here. It it it kind of lists everything like. You said, and the way it's kind of broken down is verses one through 6 are kings defeated by Moses and then seven through 24 Joshua. So it's kind of like combining, it's like more of a summary, combining everything together. And I love, like you mentioned it, Sion and Ogg. These are the kings that are like always mentioned. These are like the big, you know, these bad kings. Like those are like all like, and all these Listerine, they're like always there. They're actually referencing Psalm 135, Psalm 136, Nehemiah 9, Deuteronomy 31. These are like very important.

33:17 We see unity here between Moses, Joshua, unity. It does come full circle. We kind of started out some of this with, you know, Gad half tribe of Manasseh, you know, these tribes like on the other side of the Jordan saying, hey, we're going to fight with you before we settle back. And they did their job. We they got everything. I think that's, you know, part of the reason it talks about this conquest on the other side of the Jordan. So overall summary of Israel's conquest, it's very specific, which is important, not general. And that really Tees it up for next time. Joshua 13 will start dividing the land. Yeah. And I think we can probably just. Read those chapters straight because they kind of sell themselves, you know what I'm saying?

34:02 They just jump off the page. Well, to briefly recap, we talked about Chapter 9. Israel without Yahweh got deceived. Not great and a different economy. Then yeah, that's right. That's right. Different. Economy. So we're not saying don't go to Lord. But they had they had a different, different way of doing things then they kind of got on on the. Same page and really rolled with that Southern campaign, northern campaign. We talked about the summary really, really teeing up most book and and the book keeps going till 24. So it's like there's still a lot of text to cover. So you might be like, what are they going to talk about? Got to hang in for that. It's a time for our, our, our.

34:45 The the final. Take the last, take whatever. Whatever we say, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I got. I got. Something on my mind. I know she got something on your mind. No, no, you're good, you know. Your daughter? Oh yeah. Which one? Your daughters. Two daughters are snitches. You know what they say? Yeah. Snitches get stitches. Yeah, yeah. There you are, Chloe and Lydia, Is this about you? Being on your phone in the car. Yeah, we I the more I talk. The worse it gets. I wasn't. Yeah, not great. That's one of them. Chloe told on me and then I can't remember. I feel like Lydia did. I. It's escaping me right now. Exactly what she told on me for.

35:25 You should ask her, 'cause she was like, was it with axe throwing? I don't know what it was. It's something that getting upon, but it's one of those things I was next to Chloe at a stoplight and I look up and she's I'm like, oh, I'm. It's like weird because it's like 7 of the story from her from. Before she knew. So she's like, hey, I was driving up there, there's this car and it was a Tesla. And I was like, oh, that's Zach. And then you got in the far left lane. She was in the middle lane. And she said that for maybe 2 minutes or so, she tried to get your attention to the point where she, it was kind of awkward. She's like, OK, I'm going to stop doing this 'cause I feel awkward cause 'cause she said I was just like, I had made my mind up.

36:10 I'm just going to weigh, you know, and I you know, and it's like after like a minute or so, this like she said she even got something like one of her stuffed animal or something that she had there was waving it and and you were I was a little working to Fox, to Fox's credit, you were you're trying to you're trying to make the most of every opportunity. I'll tell you what I'm not saying I. Endorse it, but if you put on that full self driving, then when your car starts starts moving, you're like, oh, I guess the light screen, you know what I mean? They're like, OK, I'm good. Not that that's what you should rely on. But from my point of view, I look up and Chloe's not paying. I was like, oh, this is weird. It's like 730 morning just dropped off my kids. I was like, that's weird. I was like, oh, Chloe, I was waving my hands, not knowing she had to try to get my attention.

36:55 But now the roles were reversed and she wasn't. She's like, I wasn't. Purposes, like I was just like trying to make it not awkward now. So she's like, I was looking at something, turning around and then she notices you had like some neon paper or something or was waving it or something. It was like the car line like. You have like your last name. So I was like, oh. Actually was I did not have my. Full self driving on because I did not go and she's like Zach, you need to go, you're not going to the light screen 'cause I had to turn a left and I was like, oh good, 'cause I'm sure everyone behind me that probably knows. Jill loved this story though. Oh, I, I could tell, she texted. The group chat, it's great. She loved it's, it's full circle for her. Payback is sweet. You know, 'cause I 'cause you may or may not. Remember, Zach caught Jill texting Yeah, you know, no point in time and.

37:37 That's right. That's why. You know, cast the first stone. You know Speck. In my in her. Yeah. It's that's how how it goes. Lydia, did you remember? Because I think. So OK, good because. She's not. If there's one daughter who may not get right back to you when you text her, it's it's legit. We tell her, you know, I don't know. I don't want to broad, I shouldn't. Broadcast it. Oh, you don't want to broadcast? It's broadcast. Safety with kids and a oh, oh, I do know this. I do know this. Anyway, it was our car. Died. It was tough. We, we double buckled kids and stuff and it wasn't pretty, but we everyone's fine. Yeah, yeah. We've been in this, Yeah. You, you were at a place where you had to drop a vehicle off. Yes. Without the kids, yes, you just.

38:19 Drop it off just. Drop it off and then later you're like. Oh, that vehicle had car seats in it that I probably needed. Yeah, that's tough. Also won't get into here. I've told the story. To a lot of people. But car rider line at Northwood just blew my mind. I asked Jackson to like come around. It's like a snake that circles. In on itself it's it's something you like you go in come around and then it like there it shifts over when you and then it come yeah, yeah, it's it's it is it it is a beast. I I was already struggling. And we had two of my kids like on the right hand side of the car. And I was like, oh, I just rolled in my run. I was like, Jackson, just run around to the other side.

39:00 You thought I'd, you know, just yelled a curse word or something. All the teachers were like, no, someone stopped that kid not in the road. Clearly it was a huge safety like, and I agree that's probably not safe for kids on their own. But it was like, we like almost shut down Carl. It's a different world than from what we grew up. In you know what I'm saying? And, and good. Good on them. Good on them. That's right, you're trying. To say we trust them, yeah. Yeah, that, that. Life, you know. That that could the the accident that could potentially happen, I wasn't cut out for. For car rider lineman Leanne does car rider line sometimes, I'm obviously positive, but she's like man, every now and then it get things get tense. It's good. Well, that's great. We got just a few more episodes probably in Joshua.

39:42 Well, yeah. Anything else you want to do on this last take before we wrap it up? It's great. So take away. Joshua slash, Chloe and Lydia will tell on you so fast. Just keep the. Key that might. That I'm just kidding. But that, yeah, that that's all I got. So I'm going to say that's our take. Thanks for listening to Take TWO. Find us wherever you find podcasts and on YouTube for those who want to watch our video cast.