Daniel Condurachi’s Blog

Foreword: In my last year post I tend to write more of my thoughts. I did this because this is what I felt to write, this is how God spoke to me. He spoke me trough the Bible and from what I was reading translated everything in my own language - a new way of saying thing, in my own way, but with the same meaning as with what I was reading. This year is different. Indeed, I have a different schedule to read the Bible. But, I was thinking that it would happen like the last year. This year I write down in my notebook and also on this blog just verses, without much, or even none of my thoughts. I do not know if it is a regression. I have to write more on this topic. I am looking forward to it.

Today, as I was reading from the 1st part of the Bible, God spoke me in Joshua 10. It is an example for me to fallow. Also, it is a good example for you to follow. When I have to do something, even if it is planned or not in advance, the best way to do it is together with my heavenly Dad. Most of the times I just run into the issue. I want to solve it, in my own way, by myself. In this manner we ask ourselves why it didn’t work, why it wasn’t entirely a success. Here it is the passage that inspired me:

Background story

1-2 It wasn’t long before My-Master-Zedek
king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai
and destroyed it and its king under a holy curse,
just as he had done to Jericho and its king.
He also learned that the people of Gibeon
had come to terms with Israel and were living as neighbors.
He and his people were alarmed:
Gibeon was a big city
—as big as any with a king and bigger than Ai—
and all its men were seasoned fighters.

3-4 Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to
Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon:
“Come and help me. Let’s attack Gibeon;
they’ve joined up with Joshua and the People of Israel.”

5 So the five Amorite (Western) kings
—the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon—
combined their armies and set out to attack Gibeon.

6 The men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua camped at Gilgal,
“Don’t let us down now! Come up here quickly! Save us! Help us!
All the Amorite kings who live up in the hills have ganged up on us.”

The actual story

7-8 So Joshua set out from Gilgal, his whole army with him
—all those tough soldiers!
God told him,
“Don’t give them a second thought.
I’ve put them under your thumb
—not one of them will stand up to you.”

9-11 Joshua marched all night from Gilgal
and took them by total surprise.
God threw them into total confusion before Israel,
a major victory at Gibeon.
Israel chased them along the ridge to Beth Horon
and fought them all the way down to Azekah and Makkedah.
As they ran from the People of Israel,
down from the Beth Horon ridge and all the way to Azekah,
God pitched huge stones on them out of the sky and many died.
More died from the hailstones
than the People of Israel killed with the sword.

12-13 The day God gave the Amorites up to Israel,
Joshua spoke to God, with all Israel listening:
“Stop, Sun, over Gibeon; Halt, Moon, over Aijalon Valley.”
And Sun stopped, Moon stood stock still until he defeated his enemies.

13-14 (You can find this written in the Book of Jashar.)
The sun stopped in its tracks in mid sky; just sat there all day.
There’s never been a day like that before or since
—God took orders from a human voice!
Truly, God fought for Israel.

15 Then Joshua returned, all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.

Joshua 10:1-15