10One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)As to the date of this edict of Joshua, I. No mention at all is made of the place where this general assembly was held; some think it was at Timnath-serah, Joshua’s own city, where he lived, and whence, being old, he could not well remove. But it does not appear that he took so much state upon him; therefore it is more probable this meeting was at Shiloh, where the tabernacle of meeting was, and t…
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