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Joshua 11:20

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts,.... As he hardened the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, that his power might be displayed in their destruction:that they should come against Israel battle; and so fall in it:that he might destroy them utterly; for their abominable wickedness, idolatry, incest, &c.

they had been guilty of:[and] that they might have no favour; which they would have had, had they made peace as the Gibeonites did; or that they might not pray and make supplication, the Lord not giving them a spirit of supplication, but an hard heart, as Gussetius observes the words may be interpreted, though he seems to prefer the former, sense:but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses; De 7:1.

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