YuēShūyàjì 11:20

20 Yīnwei Yēhéhuá de yìsi shì yào shǐ tāmen xīnli gāng yìng , lái yǔ Yǐsèliè rén zhēng zhàn , hǎo jiào tāmen jìn beì shā miè , bú mĕng liánmǐn , zhēng rú Yēhéhuá suǒ fēnfu Móxī de .

YuēShūyàjì 11:20 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 11:20

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts
As he hardened the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, that his power might be displayed in their destruction:

that they should come against Israel battle;
and so fall in it:

that he might destroy them utterly;
for their abominable wickedness, idolatry, incest they had been guilty of:

[and] that they might have no favour;
which they would have had, had they made peace as the Gibeonites did; or that they might not pray and make supplication, the Lord not giving them a spirit of supplication, but an hard heart, as Gussetius ^F6 observes the words may be interpreted, though he seems to prefer the former, sense:

but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses;
( Deuteronomy 7:1 Deuteronomy 7:2 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Comment. Ebr. p. 272.

YuēShūyàjì 11:20 In-Context

18 Yuēshūyà hé zhè zhū wáng zhēng zhàn le xǔduō nián rì .

19 Chúle Jībiàn de Xīwèirén zhī waì , méiyǒu yī chéng yǔ Yǐsèliè rén jiǎng hé de , dōu shì Yǐsèliè rén zhēng zhàn duó lái de .

20 Yīnwei Yēhéhuá de yìsi shì yào shǐ tāmen xīnli gāng yìng , lái yǔ Yǐsèliè rén zhēng zhàn , hǎo jiào tāmen jìn beì shā miè , bú mĕng liánmǐn , zhēng rú Yēhéhuá suǒ fēnfu Móxī de .

21 Dāngshí Yuēshūyà lái dào , jiāng zhù shān dì , Xībǎilún , Dǐbì , Yànábǎi , Yóudà shān dì , Yǐsèliè shān dì suǒyǒude Yànà zú rén jiǎnchú le . Yuēshūyà jiāng tāmen hé tāmende chéngyì jìn dōu huǐmiè .

22 Zaì Yǐsèliè rén de dì méiyǒu liú xià yī gè Yànà zú rén , zhǐ zaì Jiāsà , Jiātè , hé Yàshítū yǒu liú xià de .