The prince of Yahweh's host said to Joshua, Put off your shoe from off your foot; for the place whereon you stand is holy. Joshua did so.
"Art thou for us, or for our adversaries ...?" As Matthew Henry declared, "This implies that the conflict between Israel and the Canaanites, between Christ and Beelzebub, will admit of no neutrality.  As Christ himself said it, `He that is not for us is against us.'"[34]