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Joshua 10:42

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42 Joshua captured all these kings and their lands at one time, because 1the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
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Joshua 10:42 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 10:42

And all these kings, and their land, did Joshua take at one
time
Not in one day, but in a very short time, in a few days, as the history clearly shows:

because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel;
which is the true reason of such quick dispatch being made, otherwise in all probability much longer time must have been consumed in subduing them. The Targum is,

``because the Lord God of Israel fought by his Word for Israel.''
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Joshua 10:42 In-Context

40 Thus Joshua struck all the land, the hill country and the Negev and the lowland and the slopes and all their kings. He left no survivor, but he utterly destroyed all who breathed, just as the LORD , the God of Israel, had commanded.
41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea even as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen even as far as Gibeon.
42 Joshua captured all these kings and their lands at one time, because the LORD , the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
43 So Joshua and all Israel with him returned to the camp at Gilgal.

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