Joshua 10:28-43

Okay, well, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. I guess we're starting. We're at Joshua chapter 10. Joshua chapter 10, verses 28 through 43. We're going to talk about Joshua taking over the south. So, Joshua 10, and we're going to start at verse 28 and read through the end of the chapter. It's going to be about Joshua, and he had executed, killed five kings before, and now he's going to take over their lands.
So, let's have some coffee, we'll pray, and we'll get into God's word. You want some coffee Okay. Yesterday was enough. Someday maybe you will. Someday. Let's pray. God, we thank you so much for this day. We thank you for your word. And we pray that you would please help us as we read your word, that your Holy Spirit would teach us, that we would understand your word, and that we would know, God, how it applies to our own lives. In Jesus' name, Amen. Alright, so Joshua chapter 10, beginning at verse 28. Nathan, why don't you start reading? And whenever you're done, just let me know and I'll pick up the rest. On that day, Joshua took Makeda and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them and all the people who were in it. He let none remain.
He also did the King Madoc as he had done to the King of Jericho. Then Joshua passed from Madoc and all as well with him to Libna. And they fought against Libna, and the Lord also delivered them. He struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword. He let none remain in it, but did it to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Then Joshua passed from Libna and all Israel with him to Lachish. And they encamped against it and fought against it. And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, who took it on the second day and struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword according to all that he had done to Libna. Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left him none remaining. From Melchizedek, Joshua passed to Eglon, and all Israel with him.
And they encamped against it, and fought against it. They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. All the people who were in it he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Melchizedek. So Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron. And they fought against it. And they took it and struck it with the edge of the sword, its king and all its cities, and all the people who were in it. He left none remaining according to all that he had done to Eglin, but utterly destroyed it and all the people who were in it.
Then Joshua returned and all Israel with him to Debir. And they fought against it. And he took it and its king and all its cities. You can read the last three verses. So Joshua conquered all the land, the mountain country, and the south, and the lowland and the wilderness slopes. And all their kings he left none remaining, but only destroying all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.
And Joshua... And Joshua conquered them from Gedish, Baraniah, as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even as far as Gimeon. And all these things in their land Joshua took at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel. Then Joshua turned, and all went with him to the camp of Gilgal.
All right, so in the previous part of chapter 10, right, Adonai Zadok, the king of Jerusalem, had gathered together all these different kings to fight against the Gibeonites because they had made a treaty with Joshua and the Israelites, and they went to war against them, and the king of the Gibeonites calls to Joshua and says, hey, help us, we came into a treaty with you, come and help fight for us. So Joshua goes, he defeats them at Gibeon, With the help of the Lord.
With the help of the Lord, good. And now, what's he do after he's put to death those five kings who kind of came into a confederacy against him? He takes over their lands. Yeah, right? One by one. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Because Joshua's that good. Joshua's that strong. Joshua's that powerful. Oh yeah, Joshua did it all. This is the book of Joshua. It's all about Joshua. Joshua did this because Joshua's great. He was strong and courageous. Now he killed like a thousand men all by himself. Yeah, right. It's all about Joshua. What do you mean? Well, you have to think, every time, you know how much spoil they could have took? Mm-hmm. From all those things? Mm-hmm. But some of it they left, or they didn't take any at all because the Lord Yeah, it's the Lord's. The whole point here is not Joshua, Joshua, Joshua.
Notice on verse 13, And the Lord delivered it and its kings into the hand of Israel. And then verse 32, And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. And then you get to the end of verse 40, As the Lord God of Israel had commanded, verse 42, all these kings and their lands Joshua took at one time because Joshua is so amazing.
Because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel Why did they win all these battles because but weren't they fighting Weren't they doing stuff weren't they wielding the swords weren't they shooting their bows You know You'd have to think, like, if you just said, well, Elon Musk does it all by himself, it'd be an understatement.
But you can't always say, well, Elon Musk doesn't do it. Like, it's not Elon Musk, it's all his workers. I did not anticipate this morning Elon Musk to enter into this conversation. Well, it's just like, if you have a millionaire, is it the millionaire that's, can you have the millionaire without any people? Oh, okay, so Joshua won because of all the people.
No, it's God using them to build His kingdom. Oh, okay. Yeah. So the Lord is doing it, right? But the Lord uses means for it. He uses people, yeah. But the only reason why they're succeeding is because God is with them. But they're doing all of this because they're so great and they're so mighty and they're so good, right? They're perfect people. To build God's kingdom. Oh, so God's using the perfect people to build his perfect kingdom. No, he's using imperfect people. And it's going to be an imperfect kingdom, but he's going to. Eventually, it's going to be perfect.
Yeah, right, we're learning about the second petition in the Lord's Prayer, right? And in family worship and the very last kingdom we're praying about when we pray that your kingdom come is that the kingdom of glory might be hastened. We pray that God's kingdom would come soon. All right, yeah, so what's so, all right, give it to me, give it to me short. What's this about? God defeats a lot of people. Okay, so the lord's the lord's getting the victory good. Uh, so what's the b best first? So a what's this about b? What's the best verse?
I'm gonna do 28 To 46 That's worse than cheating. That's horrible. I have verse 42. All these kings and their land Joshua took at one time because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel. I think that's at the heart of this. Now it's interesting. Adonai, Zadok, and Jerusalem aren't mentioned here. All the other kings are. I thought there was Jerusalem. Nope. Remember it said he slayed one of the things according to what? Nope Libna, Lakish, Gezer, Eglon, Hebron, Dabir. No Jerusalem.
Oh, it's Jericho. Yeah, as he did in Jericho, but Jerusalem's not mentioned. It's not going to be until later that Jerusalem's going to be conquered. It's going to take actually a long time for the Jebusites to be conquered. Wait, so they weren't conquered? What's that? So they weren't yet? They were not conquered yet. It's going to take a long time before this happens. But how did they kill all of them before? What do you mean how did they kill all of them before? In the last chapter they killed all of them.
Well, they defeated them in battle, but that doesn't mean they took over their cities Yeah, so just right we might lose a war in the United States, but that doesn't mean that they've conquered our country That'd be a lot harder Imagine right we go to war we what would happen. Okay, so let's say we lost World War two Does that mean all of a sudden the Germans would own Chicago?
Oh They'd have to now come and try to fight to get it, right? Yeah, they still won. They don't have a lot of fuel up, but they won it all. Well, they might only win. Well, the point is, right, they would actually have to come and subjugate the people. Exactly, so just because they won the battle doesn't mean they won the whole people but here they're actually winning the whole south right so all the way here it's actually interesting one of the notes here is that all the way down to Goshen even as far as Gibeon so all the way down almost to the Egyptian border it seems like that what is what is gas Gaza is a city and modern-day Palestine today. I can show you later. So it's the old Philistinian area. So the Philistines had five different cities along the coast of the Mediterranean. And so Gaza is one of those five main cities. So this is the same Gaza today. So they pushed back pretty far.
Oh yeah. Yeah. Almost all the way to the sea. Yeah. All right. So let's go ahead and we will talk about sea calling. What are we called to do? Right? So we've talked a lot about history, what God did in the past, but what's he calling you to do today? What's he calling me to do? How does this show us the covenant of grace? How does this show us Jesus Christ? Conquer neighbor's land. All right. So you're going to, you're going to go fight against Mr. Lucas and take over his farm. That'd be a lot harder than it seems.
Now, the calling here is that God's building his kingdom through Joshua. Yeah, right. Did the Lord make a promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Did he make a promise that he was going to give them the land? Yep. He's going to make them into a great nation and bless them? Yep. And was God slow to his promise? Well, just a little bit, but yeah. Yeah, it took a while, but he did. Did he forget about it or renege on it and say like, Oh man, I just, I didn't know it was going to be this hard.
It's almost like he's omniscient. Yeah. Right. No, no. The Lord accomplishes plans, right? The Lord is good. When he makes a covenant, when he makes a promise, we take that check to the bank. We can cash it. It's good. Is Jesus going to return again? You're going to bring the kingdom of glory? Yep. Yeah, might take a while. But he'll do it.
Let's pray. God, thank you so much that when you give us promises, we know that it's true and we can trust in you. Father, please give us a heart to believe. Lord, thank you for you for being a covenant keeping God in Jesus's name. Amen. May the Lord bless you. May you walk in the joy and peace of Jesus Christ. We'll see you next time. Bye.