Tokonaki ‘Okatopa 2, 2021
Fakama‘opo‘opo ‘o e Ikuna
Summary of the Conquest
Siosiua 12 (Joshua 12)
(v. 1) PEA ko eni ‘a e ngaahi tu‘i ‘o e fonua, ‘a ia na‘e taa‘i ‘e ha‘a ‘Isileli, ‘o ma‘u honau fonua ‘i he kauvai ‘o Soatani ki hahake, ‘o fai mei he tele‘a ‘o ‘Alanoni ‘o a‘u ki he mo‘unga ko Heamoni, ‘o kau ai mo e feitu‘u kotoa ‘o ‘Alapā ki hahake;
(v. 1) Now these are the kings of the land whom the people
of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward
the sunrise, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah
eastward:
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible
This chapter contains no new matter. It is rather a detailed summary of the extent of the conquest. First the victories under Moses (verses Jos 12:1-6 ) and then those under Joshua (verses Jos 12:7-24 ). Thus ends the first section of this Book.
The chosen people are now seen in actual possession of the land. The destructive part of the divine work was accomplished. The constructive purposes of God might now go forward.
All grim and soiled and brown with tan, I saw a Strong One, in His wrath, Smiting the godless shrines of man Along His path.
I looked; aside the dust-cloud rolled- The Waster seemed the Builder too; Up springing from the ruined Old
I saw the New.
That was but the ruin of the bad-
The wasting of the wrong and ill;
What e'er of good the old time had
Was living still.
God works in all things; all obey His first propulsion from the night;
Wake thou and watch!-the world is gray With morning light!
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