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Joshua 8

5 passages from 5 books in the Christian Reader library reference Joshua 8.

Use 5: Comfort to the People of God
from A Body of Practical Divinity by Thomas Watson · cites Joshua 8:15

7. Subtlety of Satan is to give some little respite, and seem to leave off tempting a while that he may come on after with more advantage. As Israel made as if they were beaten before the men of Ai, and fled; but it was a policy to draw them out of their fenced cities, and ensna…
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Part 1 — Chapter 3: The First Argument for Ruling Elders, Taken from the Jewish Church
from An Assertion of the Government of the Church of Scotland in the Points of Ruling-Elders and of the Authority of Presbyteries and Synods with a Postscript in Answer to a Treatise Lately Published Against Presbyteriall Government. by George Gillespie · cites Joshua 8:33

Fourthly, they who were so joined in council with the Priests (2 Chronicles 19:8) are plainly distinguished from the Judges and Magistrates (verse 11). And so are the Princes and Rulers distinguished from the Elders (Acts 4:5; Judges 8:14; Deuteronomy 5:23; Joshua 8:33). Fifthly…
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Verse 11
from An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea by Jeremiah Burroughs · cites Joshua 8:30

And in Deuteronomy 27:5, You shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up an iron tool upon them. And according to which Joshua did, in Joshua 8:30, and hence in Joshua 22:11. Now for the altar of God, I shall first show you a little the m…
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Chapter 1: The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians
from Commentary on Galatians 1-5 by William Perkins · cites Joshua 8:5

And this he spoke, that he might stir up Moses to fervency in prayer for the Israelites, and the Israelites to unfeigned repentance. Joshua having besieged Ai meant not to flee, yet does he fain a flight, that he might draw his enemies out of the city and destroy them (Joshua 8:…
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How the Soul Being Tempted May Answer Satan's Accusations
from The Poor Doubting Christian Drawn to Christ by Thomas Hooker · cites Joshua 8:19

The word must be ever with them; you must keep the word with you daily, and that will make you not know only what is amiss, but get ground [illegible] against whatever hinders your peace. Satan deals in this with the soul, as the enemy deals in war: when Joshua defeated the men…
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