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Joshua 11:20Josh.11.20

For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, [and] that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

KJV

Hebrew original

כִּ֣י מֵ/אֵ֣ת יְהוָ֣ה הָיְתָ֡ה לְ/חַזֵּ֣ק אֶת לִבָּ/ם֩ לִ/קְרַ֨את הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֤ה אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לְמַ֣עַן הַֽחֲרִימָ֔/ם לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י הֱיוֹת לָ/הֶ֖ם תְּחִנָּ֑ה כִּ֚י לְמַ֣עַן הַשְׁמִידָ֔/ם כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת מֹשֶֽׁה

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Car l'Eternel permit que ces peuples s'obstinassent à faire la guerre contre Israël, afin qu'Israël les dévouât par interdit, sans qu'il y eût pour eux de miséricorde, et qu'il les détruisît, comme l'Eternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.

KJV

For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, [and] that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Patristic reading

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  • Florus of Lyon

    Book against John Scotus

    fight against Israel, fall, and not deserve any mercy, but perish, as the Lord had commanded Moses" (Joshua 11:20). What could be clearer about the predestination of the wicked to eternal destruction than this: Almighty God, who had decreed this in His secret judgment, had foreto…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 119 (Migne)

    rael, et caderent, et non mererentur ullam clementiam, ac perirent, sicut praeceperat Dominus Moysi (Jos. XI, 20) . Quid [Col. 0173D] apertius inveniri potest de praedestinatione impiorum ad interitum sempiternum, quam quod omnipotens Deus, qui hoc futurum in occulto judicio suo…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 154 (Migne)

    Juda, undecim interjectis ab interfectione Phacee, secundum alios (HIER.) vero a tercio anno Achaz (JOS. XI, 20) . Nono autem regni Osee ascendit Salmanasar, qui et Teglatphalassar, rex Chaldeorum, et cepit Samariam, et captivavit Israel, id est decem tribus, et transtulit eas in…

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