Title: Victory Through God (Joshua 10:1-43)
Contents Ado Nisedek, king of Jerusalem, who heard that the Gibeonites made a treaty with Joshua, organized an allied army to attack Gibeon, and the history of the war with the Israelite army that helped them.
1. Battle and Victory with the Allied Forces 1-11 Jerusalem King Adonisedek was afraid when he heard the story of the Israeli forces led by Joshua attacking Jericho and Ai and signing a peace treaty with the Gibeonites. Five kings, including Biram king of Remut, Jabia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, allied together to attack Gibeon with all their armies. The alliance of these five kings was like a formidable force united.
The Gibeonites, who were in danger, contacted Joshua of this emergency and urgently asked for help.
When Joshua heard the news, he went out with a large army to fight the battle.
At this time, I heard the words of encouragement from God. "Do not be afraid of them. I have delivered them into your hand." So, he marched from Gilgal to Gibeon, a hundred times courageous, because he was full of morale.
Joshua slaughtered them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and pursued them from the slope that went up to Beth Horon until they reached Aze and Makkedah.
Even if they were deceived into forming an alliance, they took responsibility once they accepted it, and now they are dying. When they asked for help, they fought for the Gibeonites.
2. The sun of Gibeon stays. 12-15 Something unusual happened during this battle. Joshua said to the LORD, "Sun! Remain on Gibeon, and moon you too in the valley of Aijalon!" And Joshua said to the LORD, "Sun! This fact cannot be interpreted scientifically, but it is very easy for God to temporarily stop the rotation of the earth or the movement of the sun, who blocked the enemy's escape with hail. This fact is proof that God created the heavens and the earth and operated the universe and the natural world.
This fact was recorded in the book of Jasar (2 Samuel 1:18), and it is just a miracle that has never been seen before.
3. Pursuit and Occupation 16-39 The five kings, who admitted defeat, fled and hid in the cave of Makkedah, but were discovered and brought out. In the sight of all Israel, the five kings commanded the generals to trample on the heads of the five kings and beat them to death, and put their bodies on a tree. They hung it up and threw it into the burrow where they hid, and blocked it with a large stone. As a result, the war against the allies was won and the war ended.
On that day Joshua struck down and occupied six towns besides Makkedah: Libnah, Lachish, Shekel, Eglon, Hebron, and Debir. These cities were also captured in exactly the same way, and Joshua became an ascendant general.
Conclusion: Range of occupied land 40-43 It is said that they struck down all the mountains, the south, the plains, and the slopes of Israel, and all their kings, leaving nothing behind and annihilating all who had breath.
At this time, the area they occupied was really vast, and they occupied all the fields from Kadesh-Barnea to Gaza in the south, and from Goshen (Goshen and other places in Egypt) to Gibeon.