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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt:...supremacy. It would be difficult to conceive the miraculous and warlike incidents of this ancient book better given. The story of Joshua is here divided into twenty-one subjects, which we give in order. 1. The two spies whom Joshua sent out escaping to the mountains, while two soldiers on horseback, sent by the King of Jericho, go out in a different direction to seek for them: 'And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned' (Josh. ii. 22). Above the two Israelites is a figure seated upon a hill, personifying the mountain. 2. The priests bearing the ark of the covenant, followed by Joshua, preceding the Israelites. 'When ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it' (Josb. iii. 3). Joshua here is seen in armour--a commanding figure, with a glory round his head. 3. The Levites standing with the ark of the covenant in the midst; the people following, some of them taking up stones. 'And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over' (iii. 17). 'And Joshua said... take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes' (iv. 5). The waters of the Jordan are not given, but, according to antique usage, the figure of a river god, with his arm on his urn, is seen seated above. 4. The Israelites, some of them bearing stones, preceded by Joshua. 'And the people carried the stones over with them unto the place where they lodged' (iv. 8). 5. Joshua piling the stones; the Israelites behind him. 'And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal' (i...