1. Joshua and Israel Entrusted Their Battles to Yahweh

Joshua 9:1-2 (NIV)

“Now when all the kings west of the Jordan heard about these things—the kings in the hill country, in the western foothills, and along the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea as far as Lebanon (the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites)— they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel.”

Joshua 10:8 (NLT)

“‘Do not be afraid of them,’ the Lord said to Joshua, 'for I have given you victory over them. Not a single one of them will be able to stand up to you.’”

Ephesians 6:10 (NLT)

“A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.”

Joshua 11:1-4 (NLT)

“When King Jabin of Hazor heard what had happened, he sent messages to the following kings. . . All these kings came out to fight. Their combined armies formed a vast horde. And with all their horses and chariots, they covered the landscape like the sand on the seashore.”

Joshua 11:6 (NLT)

“Then the Lord said to Joshua, ‘Do not be afraid of them. By this time tomorrow, I will hand all of them over to Israel as dead men. Then you must cripple their horses and burn their chariots.’”

Joshua 11:23 (NLT)

“So Joshua took control of the entire land, just as the Lord had instructed Moses. He gave it to the people of Israel as their special possession,

dividing the land among the tribes. So the land finally had rest from war.”