I had no idea how close all of this stuff in Joshua was and by the way I'm doing the 11th and 12th today so two days of double blogs (makes Sam a dull boy?). The idea of marching around the city had to be insane to the Israelites but this is actually one of the few things I don't see them complain about so maybe they are getting better. Anyway they march around and the walls fall down and they kill everyone in the city, boom regular story, I don't like the regular stories I like going more abstractly into them. This leads me to two things here that caught my attention, one is that after the Israelites get the city it says Joshua's fame spread throughout the land. I don't know if this is favor among those of Israel or the people of the land or if this simply means fear (I doubt he is chiseling his name into people's favorite rocks) but I thought it was interesting. But the main point I was going to make is this when Achan, the moron who keeps some of the stuff from Jericho, sins God never specifically says a man sinned. He tells you that "Israel has sinned" and I think that was because Israel was not just the people. It was a way of living in tune with what God wanted you to and when someone lives out of sync with that God cannot be among them, meaning when they go to face AI for the first time they loose.
After this God has them search out this guy by tribe,clan,family,person and then they stone him. Now once again the Lord can be with them and they take AI in a fancy ambush and God says go ahead and take all the plunder of this city. Joshua is apparently very violent too because now he hangs the king of AI on a tree for a day before burying him under a pile of rocks, pretty weird how these guys work. Last thing to mention about this, at the entrance to this destroyed city with all of Israel present, Joshua reads the law of Moses to the people. We do realize this is the first time the Torah is read aloud and not just spoke from the mouth of the guy that would write it speaking through God right, OK good.
P.S. Never mind I don't think I'll be doing a blog on the 12th, its too late
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