Joshua 5:13

Near Jericho Joshua met a man with a drawn sword and asked whose side he was on. This unexpected figure introduces the true Commander of God's army.

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• Gen 18:2And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
• Num 22:23When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the path and went into a field. So Balaam beat her to return her to the path.
• Num 22:31Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand. And Balaam bowed low and fell facedown.
• 1 Chr 21:30but David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
• 1 Chr 21:16–17When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
• Dan 10:5I lifted up my eyes, and behold, there was a certain man dressed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist.
• Hos 12:3–5In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
• Exod 23:23For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.
• Judg 13:11So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” “I am,” he said.
• Gen 32:24–30So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
• 1 Chr 21:27Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath.
• Zech 1:8I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
• Acts 1:10They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
• Dan 8:3Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later.
• Judg 13:22“We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”
• Josh 6:2And the LORD said to Joshua, “Behold, I have delivered Jericho into your hand, along with its king and its mighty men of valor.
• Judg 13:8–9Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
• Gen 33:1Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
• 1 Chr 12:17–18And David went out to meet them, saying, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free of violence, may the God of our fathers see it and judge you.”
• Gen 33:5When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
• Rev 1:13and among the lampstands was One like the Son of Man, dressed in a long robe, with a golden sash around His chest.

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