Bob Russell
February 19, 2025
As we finish chapter 10 and begin chapter 11, Joshua was faithful to lead the Nation of Israel. We see how the conflicts became increasingly more challenging from each battle to the next. Ultimately, this rich history of conquering these kingdoms teaches us how obedience pleases the Lord and ultimately brings the victory.
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Romans 8:29–30 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image
of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30
And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified;
those he justified, he also glorified.
Acts 4:12 (NKJV) Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under
heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Psalm 139:16 (NLT) You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life
was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had
passed.
Joshua 10:28-41 That day Joshua took Makkedah. He put the city and its king to the sword
and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors. And he did to the
king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho. 29 Then Joshua and all Israel
with him moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and attacked it. 30 The LORD also gave that
city and its king into Israel’s hand. The city and everyone in it Joshua put to
the sword. He left no survivors there. And he did to its king as he had done to
the king of Jericho. 31 Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Libnah to Lachish; he
took up positions against it and attacked it. 32 The LORD gave Lachish into Israel’s hands,
and Joshua took it on the second day. The city and everyone in it he put to the
sword, just as he had done to Libnah. 33 Meanwhile, Horam king of Gezer had come up to help
Lachish, but Joshua defeated him and his army—until no survivors were left. 34
Then Joshua and all
Israel with him moved on from Lachish to Eglon; they took up positions against
it and attacked it. 35 They captured it that same day and put it to the sword and totally
destroyed everyone in it, just as they had done to Lachish. 36 Then Joshua and all Israel
with him went up from Eglon to Hebron and attacked it. 37 They took the city and put
it to the sword, together with its king, its villages and everyone in it. They
left no survivors. Just as at Eglon, they totally destroyed it and everyone in
it. 38 Then
Joshua and all Israel with him turned around and attacked Debir. 39 They took the city, its
king and its villages, and put them to the sword. Everyone in it they totally
destroyed. They left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king as they had
done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron. 40 So Joshua subdued the whole region, including
the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills and the mountain slopes,
together with all their kings. He left no survivors. He totally destroyed all
who breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded. 41 Joshua subdued them from
Kadesh Barnea to Gaza and from the whole region of Goshen to Gibeon.
Deuteronomy 7:22 The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by
little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild
animals will multiply around you.
Joshua 17:13 However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites
to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.
Joshua 10:42 All these kings and their lands Joshua conquered in one campaign, because
the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:15 He said: Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live
in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the LORD says to you: Do not be afraid or
discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s.
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The battle belongs to the Lord.
Joshua 10:43 Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.
Joshua 11:1-5 When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of
Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Akshaph, 2 and to the northern kings who were in the
mountains, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in
Naphoth Dor on the west; 3 to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below Hermon
in the region of Mizpah. 4 They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and
chariots—a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. 5 All these kings joined
forces and made camp together at the Waters of Merom to fight against Israel.
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Prior victories prepare us for greater victories
in the future.
Joshua 11:6-9 The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, because by this time
tomorrow I will hand all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring
their horses and burn their chariots.” 7 So Joshua and his whole army came against them
suddenly at the Waters of Merom and attacked them, 8 and the LORD gave them
into the hand of Israel. They defeated them and pursued them all the way to
Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim, and to the Valley of Mizpah on the east,
until no survivors were left. 9 Joshua did to them as the LORD had directed: He
hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.
2 Kings 23:11 (NLT) He removed from the entrance of the LORD’s Temple
the horse statues that the former kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They
were near the quarters of Nathan-melech the eunuch, an officer of the court.
The king also burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.
Matthew 6:22–23 (NKJV) The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your
eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad,
your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you
is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of
the LORD our God.
Joshua 11:10-15 At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to
the sword. (Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.) 11 Everyone in it they put to
the sword. They totally destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and
he burned Hazor itself. 12 Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the
sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had
commanded. 13 Yet
Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds—except Hazor, which
Joshua burned. 14 The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock
of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely
destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed. 15 As the LORD commanded his
servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it; he left nothing
undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy 6:10–12 (NLT) The LORD your God will soon bring you into the land
he swore to give you when he made a vow to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob. It is a land with large, prosperous cities that you did not build.
11 The houses will
be richly stocked with goods you did not produce. You will draw water from
cisterns you did not dig, and you will eat from vineyards and olive trees you
did not plant. When you have eaten your fill in this land, 12 be careful not to forget
the LORD, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.
Joshua 11:16-22 So Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the
whole region of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the mountains of
Israel with their foothills, 17 from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal
Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings
and put them to death. 18 Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time. 19 Except for the Hivites
living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the Israelites, who
took them all in battle. 20 For it was the LORD himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against
Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without
mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 21 At that time Joshua went and destroyed the
Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill
country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally
destroyed them and their towns. 22 No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only
in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive.
Numbers 13:33 (NKJV) There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak
came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so
we were in their sight.
Joshua 11:23 So Joshua took the entire land, just as the LORD had directed Moses, and
he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions.
Then the land had rest from war.
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