Evidently Yahweh has authorized and legitimated, and that was enough. Even in v. 20, where the rhetoric is escalated, Yahweh does not act in a concrete way. Thus I suggest that revelation in this narrative is not self-disclosure of God, for nothing new is shown of God; but revelation is the gift of authorization by which Joshua and Israel are legitimated for their own acts of liberation, which from the side of the king of Hazor are perceived as acts of violence. What is “disclosed” is that the world