So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
23. So Joshua took the whole land, The Latin text of the 23rd verse, (Joshua 11:23), beginning thus, “Accepit itaque Josue totam terram prorsus ut dixerat Jehova Mosi;” “Joshua, therefore received the whole land entirely, as the Lord had said to Moses,” removes the apparent inaccuracy, but it is only by a sacrifice of the literal meaning, which is perfectly rendered by the English version.
The Canaanites' refusal to seek peace was their fatal blindness. God hardened hearts already bent on war; they chose enmity with Israel when they might have made terms, as Gibeon did. Hardness of heart is the sinner's ruin, and those left to their own stubborn pride are already marked for destruction.
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Commenting on Joshua 11:15-23
So Joshua took the whole land,.... Of Canaan, the far greater and better part of it, all before described; all that he went against, he failed not in any of his attempts; no place stood out against him that he besieged or summoned, all yielded to him: according to all that the Lord said unto Moses: in Deu 11:23, and Joshua gave it for an...