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Flashback 3,500 Years: Israel Battles South Lebanon
For over 2000 years, Israel did not exist until 1948. Israel has had to fight to maintain it's status as a nation since then, just as it had to fight to establish itself the first time it became a nation, 1500 years BC. At that time Israel even had to fight Anakims (giants) in Southern Lebanon, and today they went into Baalbek, known as Baalgil in the account of that first battle. That also was when Joshua asked God for more daylight during one of the battles, and the "Sun stood still" during the fight in Southern Lebanon.

JOSHUA 11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;

JOSHUA 11:17 Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad (Baalbek?) in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.

JOSHUA 11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

JOSHUA 11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.

JOSHUA 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.

JOSHUA 11:21 And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims* from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.

JOSHUA 11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.

JOSHUA 11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

*Hebrew "anakim" = "giants."

Posted by: Spavigum Glinens9851 2006-08-03
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