Well, word sort of got around that God had dried up the water of the Jordan River so that the Israelites could cross over such that the inhabitants' hearts melted within them and they had no spirit in them. In other words, they feared the God of Israel. These are the same people that stubbornly refused to turn to God for over 400 years! They know their day in Canaan is over and Israel is moving in!
So the Canaanites are to afraid to mess with Israel. Now God commands Joshua to circumcise the nation and they rested there in peace until they were healed. After a passover celebration, the manna stopped and the nation ate the fruit of Canaanland from then on.
Then Joshua meets the captain of the LORD's host. The fact that the being allowed Joshua to fall down and worship him indicates that this is the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ. The LORD gives Joshua some peculiar instructions for battle, which Joshua follows.
Upon completion of these instructions, the walls of Jericho fall down, Israel utterly destroys every living thing in the city except Rahab and her family, and takes the gold, silver, brass, and iron for the treasury of the house of the Lord.
"And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD they shall come into the treasury of the LORD." Joshua 6:18-19
In other words, the spoils were not to be divided among the people; they were all to be given to the Lord. I believe this was to remind the nation of Israel that God had fought this battle for them. God had won the victory, so He was to keep all the spoils. To the victor belong the spoils.
So the Canaanites are to afraid to mess with Israel. Now God commands Joshua to circumcise the nation and they rested there in peace until they were healed. After a passover celebration, the manna stopped and the nation ate the fruit of Canaanland from then on.
Then Joshua meets the captain of the LORD's host. The fact that the being allowed Joshua to fall down and worship him indicates that this is the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ. The LORD gives Joshua some peculiar instructions for battle, which Joshua follows.
Upon completion of these instructions, the walls of Jericho fall down, Israel utterly destroys every living thing in the city except Rahab and her family, and takes the gold, silver, brass, and iron for the treasury of the house of the Lord.
"And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD they shall come into the treasury of the LORD." Joshua 6:18-19
In other words, the spoils were not to be divided among the people; they were all to be given to the Lord. I believe this was to remind the nation of Israel that God had fought this battle for them. God had won the victory, so He was to keep all the spoils. To the victor belong the spoils.
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