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Joshua 10 Bible study: The day the LORD listened
The day the sun stood still began with Gibeon's peace: five kings attacked Gibeon for making peace with Israel, and Joshua marched all night to save the people who had deceived him (10:4-9). And 10:14 remembers the day not first for the sun, but because "the LORD listened to the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel."
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“There was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD listened to the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.”
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“The five kings went up to attack Gibeon, not Israel's camp.”
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What's really going on
Gibeon's peace brought the war
Chapter 9 ended with a covenant: "Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live" (9:15). Chapter 10 opens with what came of it. Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai, "and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them" (10:1), and "they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city… greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty" (10:2). So the five kings don't march on Israel's camp. They say, "Let’s strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel" (10:4) (tap made peace). Gibeon sends to Joshua, "Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us!" (10:6), and Joshua goes up "he and the whole army with him" (10:7). The people who had deceived Israel (9:22) are the people Israel marches all night to save: "He marched from Gilgal all night" (10:9).
Where it leads to Jesus
Enemies under his feet
Joshua 10:24leads to1 Corinthians 15:25
Joshua tells the chiefs, "Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings" (10:24), and says, "the LORD will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight" (10:25). Paul writes of "Christ the first fruits" (1 Corinthians 15:23), "For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet" (1 Corinthians 15:25). His words are close to the LORD's in David's psalm, "until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet" (Psalm 110:1); Jesus's own question on that psalm (Matthew 22:41-45) is Psalm 110's line. No New Testament verse cites Joshua 10, so setting them side by side is a reading. Some see in 10:24-25 a picture of what the psalm and Paul say: enemies put under the feet, as the LORD's own doing (10:25). Others keep them apart: Joshua 10 is one day's battle in the land, while Paul speaks of Christ's reign to the end, when "The last enemy that will be abolished is death" (1 Corinthians 15:26).
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- The LORD fought for Israel
- Words Joshua was given, passed on
- Stand, stay, stand still
- City by city, in Moses' words
- Stones that remain to this day
- 16 questions as you read
- 10 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
דָּמַםdamamsay da-MAM
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "be or grow dumb, silent, still". Strong's: "to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop". Joshua says, "Sun, stand still on Gibeon!" (10:12), and "The sun stood still" (10:13). These are the book of Joshua's only two uses. The verb is more often about silence. "Aaron held his peace" (Leviticus 10:3) is this verb, and Joshua's word to the sun, dom, is the same form as Rest in the psalm's "Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him" (Psalm 37:7). In the song at the sea it is said of the nations: "they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over" (Exodus 15:16).
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Joshua 10 Bible study questions
- 1Gibeon had deceived Israel (9:22), yet when they called, "Don’t abandon your servants!" (10:6), Joshua marched all night to help. When is it hard to help someone who hasn't dealt straight with you?
- 2The LORD told Joshua, "Don’t fear them" (10:8), and Joshua said to his men, "Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous" (10:25). Who has passed courage on to you, and who might need you to pass it on to them?
- 3"The LORD listened to the voice of a man" (10:14). What would you ask God for this week if you were sure he was listening?
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