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Today’s chapter ends on one of the sweetest notes imaginable:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The LORD gave them rest on all sides\u2026Not one man of all their enemies withstood them\u2026Not one of the good things which the LORD had promised to the House of Israel was lacking. Everything was fulfilled (<\/span>hakol ba<\/span><\/i>)” (verses 44-45).<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything \u2013 everything! \u2013 was fulfilled. When had that ever been claimed before? When could it ever be claimed again? It seems like such a wonderful denouement to a book filled with warfare and violent conquest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Too bad this isn’t the last chapter in history. Or the last chapter in the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or even the last chapter of this book.<\/span><\/p>\n

For immediately following, in the remaining chapters of Joshua, it is described how there are still enemies, how they can lead the people into moral turpitude, and how much remains to be done. Indeed, a mere four chapters hence, the Book of Judges will begin: “After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, \u201c’Which of us shall be the first to go up against the Canaanites and attack them?’\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And from the stories there, from the beginning to the end, we see that we don’t need amoral Amorites or conniving Canaanites to lead the Israelites astray. They seem to do that just fine on their own.<\/span><\/p>\n

Historians claim that much of the Book of Joshua that speaks of total conquest and rampant dispossession was a sort of historical fantasy \u2013 that much of the reported victories never occurred, and that most of the peoples listed continued to exist alongside the Israelites. This may have been a geopolitical challenge for the ancient Israelites, but is a sort of cold moral comfort for many liberal moderns who are discomfited by the book’s, how shall we put it? Not exactly multi-culti vibe\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

So these lovely verses too may have been a sort of fantasy of finally being at rest, at peace \u2013 with all our prayers and hopes, all our wishes and needs, fulfilled, with nothing to do but sit under our collective vines and fig trees.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sound boring? 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