Today, I am reading and commenting on  Joshua 10-11.

Shortly after the Gibeonites entered into a treaty of alliance with the Israelites, the kings of the surrounding cities allied together and attacked them.  Joshua marched the Israelite army overnight to relieve the siege of Gibeon.  I want to note that we see the importance of Joshua quickly relieving the siege in the next little bit when we read how quickly the Israelites destroyed the southern cities.  It only took them a day or two to break down the walls of the cities they attacked, so it is unlikely that Gibeon would have held out much longer than that.  However, I want to especially point out that the Israelite victory owed a lot to God’s intervention.  First, more of Israel’s enemies in this event were killed by the weather, hailstones in particular, than by the Israelite army.  Additionally, things were going so well that Joshua requested of God that the sun stay still in the sky to give them more time to pursue their enemies, and the report tells us that the sun did indeed stay still in the sky.  The important lesson for us here is that if we do God’s will, He will fight the resulting battles for us.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.