Joshua 8:24

  • Inside View

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let’s not take his life,” he said.  Genesis 37:21 NIV   Tried to rescue – Jonathan Sacks makes an interesting comment about the literal Hebrew in this verse:   It is at this point that the Torah does something it does nowhere else: It makes a statement…

  • The Triumph of Tradition

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Now when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed, then all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.  Joshua 8:24 NASB Until…