Holy Scripture

Joshua 10:40

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“Likewise, it is especially the work of the Word of God to pull down the diabolical structures that the devil has built in the human soul. For, in everyone of us, that one raised up towers of pride and walls of self-exaltation. The Word of God overthrows and undermines these, so that justly, according to the apostle, w…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON JOSHUA 13.4

Source: Septuagint

Original

40And Joshua smote all the land of the hill country, and Negeb and the plain country, and Asedoth, and her kings, they did not leave of them one that was saved: and they utterly destroyed everything that had the breath of life, as the Lord God of Israel commanded,

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38And Joshua and all Israel returned to Debir; and they encamped about it;

39and they took it, and its king, and its villages: and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and they destroyed it, and everything breathing in it; and they did not leave in it anyone that was preserved: as they did to Hebron and her king, so they did to Debir and her king.

— Joshua 10:40 —

41from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, all Goshen, as far as Gibeon.

42And Joshua smote, once for all, all their kings, and their land, because the Lord God of Israel fought on the side of Israel.

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