The purpose of the encounter is to fill Joshua with humility and reverence and to instil in him the confidence that God was with him and in control.1
The purpose of the encounter is to fill Joshua with humility and reverence and to instil in him the confidence that God was with him and in control.1
13 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”