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VALIANT in war was Jesus the son of Nave, who was successor of Moses among the prophets, who was great according to his name,
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Very great for the saving the elect of God, to overthrow the enemies that rose up against them, that he might get the inheritance for Israel.
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How great glory did he gain when he lifted up his hands, and stretched out swords against the cities?
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Who before him hath so resisted? for the Lord himself brought the enemies.
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Was not the sun stopped in his anger, and one day made as two?
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He called upon the most high Sovereign when the enemies assaulted him on every side, and the great and holy God heard him by hailstones of exceeding great force.
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He made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and in the descent he destroyed the adversaries.
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That the nations might know his power, that it is not easy to fight against God. And he followed the mighty one:
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And in the days of Moses he did a work of mercy, he and Caleb the son of Jephone, in standing against the enemy, and withholding the people from sins, and appeasing the wicked murmuring.
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And they two being appointed, were delivered out of the danger from among the number of six hundred thousand men on foot, to bring them into their inheritance, into the land that floweth with milk and honey.
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And the Lord gave strength also to Caleb, and his strength continued even to his old age, so that he went up to the high places of the land, and his seed obtained it for an inheritance: