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Joshua 8:18

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

Stretch: Joshua 8:7, Joshua 8:26; Exodus 8:5, Exodus 17:11; Job 15:25

the spear: The word keedon: is rendered clypeum:, a shield or buckler, by the Vulgate but the LXX translate it γαισον:, which Suidas says, signifies a kind of weapon, οιον δορατος:, like a spear. It may denote a short spear, javelin, or lance; for it is evident that it signifies neither the larger spear nor the shield, because it is distinguished from both. 1 Samuel 17:6, 1 Samuel 17:41, 1 Samuel 17:45; Job 39:23; Joshua may have had a flag or ensign at the end of the spear, which might be seen at a considerable distance when extended, which was the sign agreed upon by him and the ambush.

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