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Given that Ai had been reported by military intelligence to have a total population of 2,000 and to present no great threat (7:3-4), our chapter seemingly gives excessive coverage (29 verses!) to its eventual conquest. Did the lingering effects of the spoils scandal magnify its importance?<\/span><\/p>\n

One detail of this conquest, however, summons up the recollection of a striking earlier victory. God instructed Joshua to reach out (<\/span>neteh<\/span><\/em>) with his spear towards Ai (8:19), which he kept extended until the victory was complete (26).<\/span><\/p>\n

This effectively combines two poses of Moses into one: God\u2019s instruction him to reach out (<\/span>neteh<\/span><\/em>) with his staff in order to split the Red Sea, and his assumed stance during the battle against Amalek at Refidim, wherein he kept his arms extended all day until the battle was over (Exodus 17:11-12).<\/span><\/p>\n

Two other subtler instances in our chapter link Joshua to Moses. In building an altar atop Mt. Ebal and conducting a public Torah reading, Joshua was clearly following the instructions of Deuteronomy (11:29 ff.). And by removing the body of the King of Ai from the gallows at nightfall (29), he was honoring the Torah\u2019s prohibition against postmortem desecration (Dt. 21:23).<\/span><\/p>\n

In delineating these similarities, the Book of Joshua is giving tangible evidence of God\u2019s earlier promise to Joshua that as long as he kept the Torah, \u201cAs I was with Moses, so shall I be with you\u201d (Joshua 1:5, and 3:7).<\/p>\n

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