Gibeon meaning hill or hill city situated within the territory allotted to the tribe of Benjamin. "Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites"-Nu.21:2. The Spirit sets down Gibeon as the sin of disobedience. God had warned Moses, "Do not make any covenant with them or their gods"(Ex.23:32-NIV). Much of Israel's problems owed ever since to their failure. The inhabitants of Gibeon approached Israel by guile and they struck a league under oath before 'Jehovah God of Israel'. Thus the lives of the Gibeonites were spared., which Joshua found only three days later.
They were, ('ye are cursed') as the five Amorite kings who were hung up on poles at the stone of Gibeon. Their curse stands in relation to the Son who became a curse for us. Consider these two verses in which the phrase,' unto this day' is how the Spirit sets it in frame of reference to the death of the Son the cross.
Firstly on the Gibeonites, "And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.(9:27)". The phrase 'unto this day occurs again in connection with the five Amorite kings defeated by Joshua. "That Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day."( Josh 10:27)
Gibeon meaning hill or hill city situated within the territory allotted to the tribe of Benjamin. "Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites"-Nu.21:2. The Spirit sets down Gibeon as the sin of disobedience. God had warned Moses, "Do not make any covenant with them or their gods"(Ex.23:32-NIV). Much of Israel's problems owed ever since to their failure. The inhabitants of Gibeon approached Israel by guile and they struck a league under oath before 'Jehovah God of Israel'. Thus the lives of the Gibeonites were spared., which Joshua found only three days later.
They were, ('ye are cursed') as the five Amorite kings who were hung up on poles at the stone of Gibeon. Their curse stands in relation to the Son who became a curse for us. Consider these two verses in which the phrase,' unto this day' is how the Spirit sets it in frame of reference to the death of the Son the cross.
Firstly on the Gibeonites, "And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.(9:27)". The phrase 'unto this day occurs again in connection with the five Amorite kings defeated by Joshua. "That Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day."( Josh 10:27)
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