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Only in Gaza and Gath, and then Ashtah did some remain.

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses.

In Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel, according to their tribal allotments, and

the land had rest from war.

What a summary of what has happened through 11 chapters in Joshua as God's people have

taken the promised land, but I want you to notice specifically in these verses, Joshua

came at that time, verse 21 says, and cut off the anachim, the anachim, and you pause

there and you think about, wait, where have we seen the descendants of anach?

And you remember back in Numbers chapter 13 and 14, when the spies went into the

promised land to scout it out, and they came back, and they said, apart from Caleb and

Joshua, the group of spies said, there's no way we can take this land, because the descendants

of anach are there, and they're so big, we're like grasshoppers in their eyes, there's

no way we could take them.

And Joshua and Caleb had stood up and said, yes, we can, because God has promised to help

us.

And yet the other spies and the people of God said, no, we can't go.

They basically said, we don't trust God to help us take this land.

And you know the story, an entire generation died in the wilderness, because they didn't

trust God.

And now here in Joshua chapter 11, it's happening, and it's happening because of the power

and the promises of God, not because the army is any mightier.

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