Joshua 11:6

Yahweh tells Joshua not to fear, promising victory within a day and commanding him to cripple the horses and burn the chariots. God assures triumph and forbids reliance on captured weaponry.

Cross-references · 17

• Josh 10:8Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.”
• 2 Sam 8:4David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen. David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
• Judg 20:28and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?” Yahweh said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.”
• 1 Sam 11:9They said to the messengers who came, “Tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be rescued.’” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
• Josh 11:9Joshua did to them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
• Ps 27:1–2By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
• Ps 147:10–11He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
• Ps 46:11Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
• 2 Chr 20:16Tomorrow, go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
• Josh 3:5Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”
• Hos 14:3Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
• Prov 20:7A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
• Isa 30:16but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”; therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift”; therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
• Ps 20:7–8Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God.
• Isa 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!
• Ps 46:9He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.
• Deut 7:16You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.

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