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Joshua 5:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

Loose: Exodus 3:5; Acts 7:32-33; 2 Peter 1:18

And Joshua: Many persons have been puzzled to know what was intended by this extraordinary appearance of the angel to Joshua, because they supposed that the whole business ends with the chapter; whereas it is continued in the succeeding one, the first verse of which is a mere parenthesis, simply relating to the state of Jericho at the time when Joshua was favoured with this encouraging vision; by which he was shewn that their help came from God alone, and that it was not by human might or power, but by the Lord of hosts they were to obtain the victory.

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