Joshua 7:5
for they.De 1:44the going down. or, Morad. wherefore.2:9,11; 5:1; Le 26:36; Ps 22:14; Isa 13:7 Joshua 8:6
drawn. Heb. pulled.16They flee.Ex 14:3; 15:9; Jud 20:32; Ec 8:11; 9:12 Judges 20:32
Let us flee.This was done, not only because they had placed an ambuscade behind Gibeah, which was to enter and burn the city as soon as the Benjamites left it; but it would seem, that the slingers, by being within the city and its fortifications, had great advantage over the Israelites by their slings, when they could not come among them with their swords, unless they got them in the plain country. Jos 8:15,16 1 Samuel 14:14-15
an half acre of land. or, half a furrow of an acre of land.The original is obscure and variously understood; but it is probably a proverbial expression for a small space. 14 there was trembling.Jos 2:9; Jud 7:21; 2Ki 7:6,7; Job 18:11; Ps 14:5the spoilers.13:17,23the earth quaked.Ex 19:18; Mt 24:6; 27:50,51very great trembling. Heb. trembling of God.Ge 35:5; Le 26:36,37; 2Sa 5:24; Da 5:6God will in some way or other direct the steps of those who acknowledge him in all their ways, and seek unto him for direction with full purpose of heart. Sometimes we find most comfort in that which is least our own doing, and into which we have been led by the unexpected, but well observed, turns of Providence.
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