Verse 12
12. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies In the moral government of God there is a causal connexion between moral and natural evil, between sin and suffering. But how few the national leaders who have eyes to see the relation which a nation’s righteous character sustains to its victory in war and its prosperity and greatness in peace! The atheistic apothegm of Napoleon, that Providence always favours the strongest battalions, is still believed by the statesmen of even Christian nations. God, as the disposer of human events, finds too little recognition in camps, courts, and cabinets.
Neither will I be with you any more This declaration proves that the strong promise of Joshua 1:5, was conditioned on the fidelity of Israel.
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