ABSTRACT
The action of the tented woodcut on the left is described in Joshua 7. In the background Joshua faces the Lord (a Tetragrammaton in the sky) after the Israelites had been humiliated by the men of Ai, while in the foreground he sits before his tent as the tribe of Judah is brought before him ‘man by man’, leading to the revelation of the spoils that Achan confessed he had taken and buried. Joshua 10 tells of the fate of the five kings of the Amorites who had made war against Gibeon, and who, having been discovered hiding in a cave at Makkedah, were ‘hanged ... on five trees’ (verse 26) as shown in the woodcut. It would have needed more skill to decipher the adjacent picture with its blank label, though a diligent scriptural reader might correctly have guessed that this great battle scene was also Joshua’s, and illustrated his defeat of various kings at the waters of Merom, as described in the next chapter of the book, Chapter 11.
