Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
"Chased them unto Great Sidon ..." This was the city some 20 miles north of Tyre on the coast of the Mediterranean, but there is nothing unreasonable about a chase that extended that far.  Holmes missed it completely when he asserted that, "The statement that Israel pursued the enemy that far is the result of the writer's ignorance of the distance between the battlefield and that city."[18]  The writer who was ignorant, however, in such a comment was not the writer of Joshua.  By consulting the map provided by Boling, it is clear that the distance between Sidon and the battlefield was only about thirty miles, which is well within the distance that a well-conditioned soldier could have traversed in much less than a whole day.[19]  (It was DOWNHILL all the way!).  We also appreciate Boling's comment here that, "Only Divine encouragement could account for Joshua's move against such odds."[20]