3So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
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And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-22)We have here an account of the taking of Ai by stratagem. The stratagem here used, we are sure, was lawful and good; God himself appointed it, and we have no reason to think but that the like is lawful and good in other wars. Here was no league broken, no treaty of peace, that the advantage was gained; no, these are sacred things, and not to be jested with, nor used to serve a turn; truth, when on…
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