Positive and Negative Patterns of Holy War

Positive: Jericho (chs. 2–6)Negative: Ai (7:1–8:29)
An assurance of victory (6:2)No assurance of victory (until 8:1)
Ritual purity (3:5; 5:2, 10)Ritual impurity (7:1, 10–26)
Unity of the assembly (6:3–5)Disunity of the assembly (7:3; 8:1)

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