fragment belongs before v 10 and points to “a stratagem used by the divine warrior to throw the enemy into panic.”1402 Other questions are more important for theological exegesis, though. The emphasis is on Yahweh uniquely listening to the voice of a human person. Here again we see a way to exalt Joshua. God listens to him. “ ‘Listen’ is a word that often connotes obedience. The strange happening at Gibeon gives Joshua an extraordinary authority.”1403 “The narrator’s summation of the event magnifies
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