Joshua 11:20 - John Wesley's Notes

Joshua 11:20

18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except ^athe Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the others they took in battle.

20 For ^ait was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that He might utterly destroy them, and that they might receive no mercy, but that He might destroy them, ^bas the Lord had commanded Moses.

21 And at that time Joshua came and cut off ^athe Anakim from the mountains: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

22 None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only ^ain Gaza, in Gath, ^band in Ashdod.

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Joshua 11:20

To harden their hearts - It was the design of God's providence not to soften their hearts to a compliance with the Israelites, but to give them up to their own animosity, pride, confidence and stubbornness; that so their abominable and incorrigible wickedness might be punished, and that the Israelites might not be mixed with them, but be entire among themselves in the possession of the land.

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