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At the end of the chapter, the text lists the 31 kings defeated as part of the conquest of Canaan. The kings are listed in column fashion and each king is listed with the number one after. Why are they listed in this way? Why not count them sequentially? Radak explains that each king was not a ruler of only one city, but was the ruler of one main city and many affiliated cities. The one next to each name is referring to the one kingdom that each ruled over.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The cadence of this list matches the list of Esau\u2019s descendants in Genesis 36:17:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These are the chieftains of Esau\u2019s sons: From the sons of Elifaz, Esau\u2019s firstborn, are: the chieftain Teiman, the chieftain Omar, the chieftain Tzefo, the chieftain Kenaz, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps this is the way that one would list out an exhaustive list of kings and rulers. Another possibility is this is essentially a song of thanks to God. The structure of the song is the same as Moses\u2019 last song with two columns. The number one after each king is meant to denote the fact that each king and each victory was significant in of itself. But in the end, the poem ends with \u201cthese kings were 31\u201d to emphasize the enormity of the task and the enormity of the victory. Building on this, perhaps Joshua is trying to send a midrashic message. Joshua and the people defeated each of these kings, but they did not do it alone. God (One) was present for each and every battle with the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Nowadays, we struggle to see how two peoples could possibly split this small land and both have a viable piece of territory to live on. Imagine what the political map looked like when Israel was divided into 32 city-states (don't forget the Gibeonites), each with its own king. And (spoiler alert!) - next chapter we'll find out that those 32 kings only represent a small portion of the population of the land!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The poetic structure of the chapter, which arranges each king on his own line, followed by a long space, and then the word \"one\", highlights the individuality of each entity. The only time they came together was to make war against Israel, and from their abject failure, we can assume that their war-time unification was not very successful. Thirty-one mini-armies, each with its own hierarchies and chain of command, is given graphic representation in the way the chapter is written- as two tall, unstable towers, easily toppled by the united nation of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash understands the endless city-states of Canaan as embassies. If your flag didn't fly in Canaan, you were a nobody (Tanchuma Mishpatim 17). Israel was, and historically always remained, \"a desired land, a beloved inheritance of legions of nations\" (Jeremiah 3:17), a tiny plot of land coveted and fought over endlessly, in ways that utterly defy historical and political logic.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But the ultimate destiny of this land is not that it be the sole possession of the Jewish nation, a precious jewel to be jealously kept for God's special, treasured nation alone. Rather, Jeremiah continues to explain, the smallest of all nations is meant to take this smallest of lands and make \"Jerusalem into God's seat, and all the nations will aspire to God's name, to Jerusalem...and all nations will be blessed by it, and praised in it\" (Jeremiah 3:17, 4:2). 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One cannot overlook the fact that nearly every encounter with the enemy Canaanite forces resulted not only in their unqualified defeat, but in the annihilation of their civilian populations as well. The recurring expression that runs as a refrain through the chapters of conquest is \"He [Joshua] struck it by the edge of the sword, all of the souls that were in its midst, leaving not a remnant.\" (See Josh. 8:24-25; 10:28, 30, 32, 35, 37, 39; 11:11, 14.) <\/span><\/p>\r\n

An investigation of the sources in the Torah that obligated Israel to wipe out all expressions of indigenous idolatrous worship clearly demonstrates that the underlying impetus for the campaign of eradication was moral rather than racial or ethnic. Almost without exception, every source in the Torah that commanded the conquest of Canaan also noted the moral degradation of its inhabitants. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

A careful reading of one of the sources highlights the moral rather than the racial nature of the conflict: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cGod spoke to Moses saying: Speak to the people of Israel and say to them... Do not follow the practices of... the land of Canaan to where I bring you, and do not follow their statutes. [...] Let no man approach his kin to uncover nakedness, I am God. (Lev. 18:1-6) <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The text goes on to list more than twenty prohibited sexual liaisons, but it is the conclusion of that source that proves to be decisive for our purposes: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cDo not defile yourselves by all of these practices, for all of the nations that I drive out from before you became defiled through them. The land became defiled and I punished it for its transgression, and the land spewed out its inhabitants.\u201d (Lev. 18:24-30) <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah indicates that the Canaanite\u2019s loss of possession was due to their moral failure. The point of the text is not to triumphantly enumerate the downfall of the Canaanites and to highlight the superiority of Israel, but rather to solemnly declare that Israel will suffer a similar fate if they adopt the practices of their predecessors. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The critical issue, therefore, is not Canaanite versus Israelite, but rather immorality in contradistinction to morality. Israel's deed to the land is no more secure than that of the Canaanites and, practically speaking, is a function of one thing only: their fidelity to God's laws and to the moral absolutes that those laws proclaim.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

from: <\/span>Joshua: The Challenge of the Promised Land<\/em> <\/span>(Jerusalem: Koren, 2015); chap: \u201cWar Against the Canaanites\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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From here through chapter 19, the Book of Joshua contains a vast assortment of place names. This presents an opportunity to introduce the subject of \u201conomastics,\u201d as the study of proper nouns is called. In each such chapter, we will select one place name and elaborate on it. To assist us, we shall consult one of the published works of Yoel Elitzur, an Israeli Bible scholar, who specializes in this area.*<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This chapter contains the names of thirty-one places whose kings were defeated by Joshua and which were going to be distributed among the Israelites as their ancestral inheritance. However, before listing their names, the book takes a retrospective glance at a slightly earlier era, recalling the Israelite victory over Sihon, King of Cheshbon (v. 2). Let us see how the name and location of Cheshbon were preserved.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

First of all, we need to take note of the fact that a book called <\/span>Onomasticon<\/span><\/em> was written in the early 4<\/span>th<\/span> century CE by Eusebius, a Christian Bible scholar, who had the advantage of living in the Land of Israel (Caesarea). Calling it by the Greek name <\/span>Essebon<\/span><\/em> (classical authors had trouble pronouncing guttural consonants like c<\/em><\/span>het<\/span><\/em>), he located the city in the mountains about 20 miles east of Jericho. Moving to the mid-7<\/span>th<\/span> century, we should also acknowledge the contribution of the conquering Muslims, who kept most of the biblical place names, albeit giving them an Arabic flavor. Cheshbon became <\/span>Chisban<\/span><\/em> and is situated about 20 kilometers southwest of Amman. It is called by that very name by Eshtor HaParchi, the first Jewish traveler (14<\/span>th<\/span> century) to record biblical onomastics in his book <\/span>Kaftor VaFerach<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It remains anyone\u2019s guess (do you have one?) whether the name is connected to the idea of thinking or reckoning, both of which, in Hebrew, use the root ch-sh-b<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*For this chapter: <\/span>Ancient Toponyms in the Land of Israel, Preservation and History<\/span><\/em> (HEBREW; Jerusalem, 2012), 288-294.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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He taught at the Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem), The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he was the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During 2005, Bregman served as the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has served as Forchheimer Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003). 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Our chapter gives a detailed list of \u201cthe kings whom the Israelites defeated and whose territories they took possession of\u2026\u201d (Joshua 12:1), concluding with their precise number: \u201c\u2026thirty-one kings in all\u201d (verse 24). This extensive list is divided into two categories: First, those kings whose territories were \u201cEast of the Jordan \u2026 These were vanquished by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the Israelites; and Moses, the servant of the Lord, assigned that territory as a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh\u201d (verses 1-6). And then a second category: \u201cthe kings whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan \u2026 which Joshua assigned as a possession to the tribal divisions of Israel\u201d (verse 7). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash (Tanhuma Re\u2019eh 7) uses this historically specific information to raise a general theological question, which continues to be discussed to our day -- the relation of God to People:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWhen the Lord your God has cut down before you the nations that you are about to enter and dispossess, and you have dispossessed them and settled in their land\u2026\u201d (Deuteronomy 12:29). The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Israel: By your lives, I will conduct your wars. But the credit for winning them I will give to you. Come and see -- the actions of the Holy One, blessed be He, are not like the actions of a king of flesh and blood. When a king of flesh and blood goes out to war, his legions go out in front of him. If they are victorious, they come and make a crown and crown him. But the Holy One, blessed be He, does not act like this. But rather when He conducts the war, He gives the crown to Israel, as it is said of God: \u201cHe struck down great kings \u2026 and slew mighty kings, Sihon, king of the Amorites \u2026 Og, king of Bashan\u201d (Psalms 136:17-20). But He gave the crown to Israel, as it is says: \u201cMoses, the servant of the Lord, and the Israelites conquered them\u201d (Joshua 12:6). In the case of Joshua, it is written: \u201c\u2026the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them\u2026\u201d (Joshua 10:11). But then Scripture speaks of \u201cthe kings whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated\u2026\u201d (Joshua 12:7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This succinct midrashic text deals, in effect, with the intersection of two major theological principles. All that happens is ultimately the work of God. This is the fundamental doctrine of Divine Providence, that God oversees what happens to every individual and is responsible for every minute detail of existence. Nevertheless, God holds us individually and collectively responsible for our actions. This is the fundamental doctrine of Reward and Punishment. God holds us personally responsible for our transgressions. 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  1. One opposite the other, one following the other<\/em>. Despite the differences in style between the two parts of the chapter, there is a parallelism between them, both of which juxtapose Moses and Joshua: two successful national leaders. Thus Joshua is presented as the direct heir to Moses\u2019 leadership. Even in the area of conquest, which was not Moses\u2019 main gig, Joshua followed in his footsteps.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Comrades in Arms<\/em>. Behind every successful leader, there stands - an entire nation. \u201cMoses, the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites, vanquished them\u2026\u201d (v. 6) and in v. 7: \u201cJoshua and the Israelites defeated...\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. \u201cTo Mount Halak which ascends to Se\u2019ir\u201d<\/em> (v. 7). 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