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Joshua chapter 11, verses 21 through 23.

And Joshua came at that time and cut off the anicum from the hill country,

from Hebron, from Debeer, from Anab, from all the hill country of Judah,

and from all the hill country of Israel. and from all the hill country of Israel.

Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities. There was none of the anicum left in the

land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in gath and an ashdod did some remain. So Joshua took

the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave

it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments, and the land had rest

from war. So these verses are a summary of what's happened from Joshua 1 to 11, as God's

people have taken the promised land and I want you to

notice specifically in these verses I just read that Joshua came at that time and verse 21 says

cut off the amicum you pause there and you think wait a minute where have we seen the descendants of

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

of Anak 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 stood up and said, yes, we can, because God has promised to help us.

But the other spies and the people of God says, 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 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 11, it's happening. So it's happening

because the power and the promises of God, not because the army is any mightier. It's because

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