Joshua 10:8

8 The Lord said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have handed them over to you; not one of them shall stand before you."

Joshua 10:8 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 10:8

And the Lord said unto Joshua
Either when upon the march, and while he was proceeding on in his journey to the assistance of the Gibeonites, or rather before he set out; and it is highly probable he consulted the Lord on this occasion, having, it may be, some doubt on his mind, whether he should go to their assistance, since the league between them was obtained by fraud; and the words may be rendered, "and the Lord hath said" ^F14: before he set forward with his men of war:

fear them not;
the five kings, and their combined army:

for I have delivered them into thine hand;
had determined to do it, and which was as certain as if it had been actually done:

there shall not a man of them stand before thee;
but be either cut off, or obliged to flee.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 (rmayw) "et dixerat", Masius, Drusius, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Joshua 10:8 In-Context

6 And the Gibeonites sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, "Do not abandon your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorites who live in the hill country are gathered against us."

7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the fighting force with him, all the mighty warriors.

8 The Lord said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have handed them over to you; not one of them shall stand before you."

9 So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal.

10 And the Lord threw them into a panic before Israel, who inflicted a great slaughter on them at Gibeon, chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.