June 8, 2019: Day 42 – Joshua 8

The previous chapter  we see that Israel was defeated soundly by the King and the people of Ai.  This was because God had withdrawn His blessing because Israel had disobeyed.  Well, now that they had fully obeyed the Lord by killing the person and his entire family who had disobeyed, they are ready to take on Ai and the people again.  It is not often that we are let in on the actual strategy that the Lord uses to defeat people.  Walking around the city and shouting really isn’t a strategy.  It is following through on a commandment which ensured that God would act.

But here we actually have as strategy which works.  Draw the people out and then have another group of your people from behind go into the city and cut them off.  It worked perfectly.  The King was taken as well and then as an example to who God is, was executed.  It seems like all is well again.  If you can read those last two sentences and make sense out of them, well, then we should talk.