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kinds of things, and then the Lord came and

gave them an answer, and the Lord said, "This

battle is mine. This does not belong to you."

Twice He says that in the chapter. And then the

unreasonable thing that God did is that Israel

didn't even lift up a sword. They began marching

out with the song leaders in front singing unto

the Lord, and God caused an ambushment, and

the enemies killed each other, and all Israel had

to do is walk into the camps of these different

nations and tribes and pick up the spoil of their

enemies that was left there — a very unusual

way to win a battle where you don't even lift up

a sword to win the battle.

What about in the days of Noah? God had

him build an ark, saved eight people, a flood

upon the world that God started off. Kind of

unusual. We probably wouldn't have done it

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