(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Joshua 9:1–2, “And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof; That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.”
The Lord had powerfully demonstrated the Joshua was his chosen man. He was called to bring justice to the Amorites because their iniquity was now complete. Jericho, a major city guarding the lower end of the Jordan valley was miraculously destroyed and Ai was comprehensively defeated using the methodology of conventional warfare. Now the rest of the city states in Canaan decided that they would be better to prosecute a war themselves with all their combined armies rather than wait for the Israeli armies to pick them off one by one. They were still afraid, as they had been for forty years since Israel escaped from Egypt and then the Lord destroyed the Egyptian armies in the Red Sea, but they chose to make an effort to save themselves. The Lord was also at work in this plan because He brought many of Israel’s enemies together so that they would be able to invade the Promised Land in a few significant steps rather than many minor battles.
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