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Hereby was typified the final and eternal destruction of all the impenitent, implacable enemies of the

Lord Jesus, who having slighted the riches of his grace

must forever feel the weight of his wrath, talking about the Canaanites, and shall have judgment

without mercy, nations that forget God shall be turned into hell.

I'll say that again, Matthew Henry, God bless them.

Nations that forget God shall be turned into hell.

The land is defiled.

It is unclean and it turns against its own inhabitants, spewing them out.

Nations that forget God shall be turned into hell and no reproach

at all to God's infinite goodness. This doesn't mean that God's not kind or not good. It simply means

that he is just and that he will not be mocked. We reap what we sow. What Matthew Henry is saying

here in the final analysis is that our text, Joshua

chapter 10, where Joshua and Israel annihilate all these Canaanite tribes, men, women, children,

the whole nine yards, driving them out and putting them to death with the edge of the sword

is that in some sense, this is a typological text. That is, it's a symbol that points towards

an eternal ultimate reality. And the ultimate reality of the Canaanites and the destruction that

God brings upon them through Israel, that reality is the reality of eternal hell. That God is

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