When you step into Joshua chapter 8… you’re stepping into a moment that comes after failure. And that matters. Because chapter 7 left Israel in a place they had never been before. Defeated. Confused. Exposed. They had just seen Jericho fall… walls collapse… God move in power. And then suddenly—Ai. A small city. A simple battle. And yet—they are routed. Not because God had changed. But because something had shifted in them. There was compromise. There was disobedience. There was something hidden beneath the surface. And once that was brought into the light… once it was dealt with… Joshua 8 begins.