BRAGADAYJAH 638
After the rout at AI, Joshua tore his clothes and laid prostrate,
face down on the ground from morning to evening, and opened up his heart and his
sorrow to the Almighty God. “Why God,”
he asked, “did you bring us to this place to destroy us, to have the Amorites
and the Canaanites make fun of us, and chase and kill us?” Surely when the other nations hear of our
humiliation, they too shall surround us and destroy us. But the Lord answered Joshua and told him
that Israel has sinned; they have stolen, they have lied, they have taken hold of
the cursed and forbidden thing; they have laid their hand on and taken the
accursed things that they were warned not to take of the possessions of the
enemy out of their camp. That is why the
Lord has caused you to be defeated, that is why you were chased out of Ai, and
until you make amends the Lord shall be no longer with you.
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