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Joshua 24:10 KJV
Joshua · chapter 24 · verse 10
But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.Joshua 24:10 · King James Version
Joshua 24:10 in context
8And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
10But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
11And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
12And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- deliverednâtsalto snatch away, whether in a good or a bad senseH5337 →
- hearkenshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- blessedbârakto kneelH1288 →
- BalaamBilʻâmBilam, a Mesopotamian prophetH1109 →
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Joshua thought he had taken his last farewell of Israel in the solemn charge he gave them in the foregoing chapter, when he said, I go the way of all the earth; but God graciously continuing his life longer than expected, and renewing his strength, he was desirous to improve it for the good of Israel.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-14