_NOW IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ADONIZEDEK KING OF JERUSALEM HAD HEARD HOW JOSHUA HAD TAKEN AI, AND HAD UTTERLY DESTROYED IT; AS HE HAD DONE TO JERICHO AND HER KING, SO HE HAD DONE TO AI AND HER KING; AND HOW THE INHABITANTS OF GIBEON HAD MADE PEACE WITH ISRAEL, AND WERE AMONG THEM;_ Adoni-zedek - `lord... [ Continue Reading ]
_THAT THEY FEARED GREATLY, BECAUSE GIBEON WAS A GREAT CITY, AS ONE OF THE ROYAL CITIES, AND BECAUSE IT WAS GREATER THAN AI, AND ALL THE MEN THEREOF WERE MIGHTY._ They feared greatly. The dread inspired by the rapid conquests of the Israelites had been immensely increased by the fact of a state so p... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE ADONIZEDEK KING OF JERUSALEM SENT UNTO HOHAM KING OF HEBRON, AND UNTO PIRAM KING OF_ _ JARMUTH, AND UNTO JAPHIA KING OF LACHISH, AND UNTO DEBIR KING OF EGLON, SAYING,_ Wherefore Adoni-zedek ... sent... saying, Come up unto me, and help me. He saw that there must be a desperate struggle,... [ Continue Reading ]
_COME UP UNTO ME, AND HELP ME, THAT WE MAY SMITE GIBEON: FOR IT HATH MADE PEACE WITH JOSHUA AND WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE THE FIVE KINGS OF THE AMORITES, THE KING OF JERUSALEM, THE KING OF HEBRON, THE KING OF JARMUTH, THE KING OF LACHISH, THE KING OF EGLON, GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER, AND WENT UP, THEY AND ALL THEIR HOSTS, AND ENCAMPED BEFORE GIBEON, AND MADE WAR AGAINST IT._ The five kings of the Amorite... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN OF GIBEON SENT UNTO JOSHUA TO THE CAMP TO GILGAL, SAYING, SLACK NOT THY HAND FROM THY SERVANTS; COME UP TO US QUICKLY, AND SAVE US, AND HELP US: FOR ALL THE KINGS OF THE AMORITES THAT DWELL IN THE MOUNTAINS ARE GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST US._ The men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua. Their ap... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO JOSHUA ASCENDED FROM GILGAL, HE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF WAR WITH HIM, AND ALL THE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_JOSHUA THEREFORE CAME UNTO THEM SUDDENLY, AND WENT UP FROM GILGAL ALL NIGHT._ Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly. This is explained in the following clause, where he is described as having accomplished, by a forced march of picked men, in one night a distance of 26 miles, which, according to... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD DISCOMFITED THEM BEFORE ISRAEL, AND SLEW THEM WITH A GREAT SLAUGHTER AT GIBEON, AND CHASED THEM ALONG THE WAY THAT GOETH UP TO BETH-HORON, AND SMOTE THEM TO AZEKAH, AND UNTO MAKKEDAH._ The Lord discomfited them - Hebrew, terrified, confounded the Amorite allies; probably, in the first... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THEY FLED FROM BEFORE ISRAEL, AND WERE IN THE GOING DOWN TO BETH-HORON, THAT THE_ _ LORD CAST DOWN GREAT STONES FROM HEAVEN UPON THEM UNTO AZEKAH, AND THEY DIED: THEY WERE MORE WHICH DIED WITH HAILSTONES THAN THEY WHOM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SLEW WITH THE SWORD._ No JFB com... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SPAKE JOSHUA TO THE LORD IN THE DAY WHEN THE LORD DELIVERED UP THE AMORITES BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND HE SAID IN THE SIGHT OF ISRAEL, SUN, STAND THOU STILL UPON GIBEON; AND THOU, MOON, IN THE VALLEY OF AJALON._ Then spake Joshua to the Lord ... Sun, stand thou still.... and thou, Moo... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SUN STOOD STILL, AND THE MOON STAYED, UNTIL THE PEOPLE HAD AVENGED THEMSELVES UPON THEIR ENEMIES. IS NOT THIS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF JASHER? SO THE SUN STOOD STILL IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, AND HASTED NOT TO GO DOWN ABOUT A WHOLE DAY._ The sun stood still, х_ BACHªTSIY_ (H2677) _ HASHAAMAYIM... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE WAS NO DAY LIKE THAT BEFORE IT OR AFTER IT, THAT THE LORD HEARKENED UNTO THE VOICE OF A MAN: FOR THE LORD FOUGHT FOR ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THESE FIVE KINGS FLED, AND HID THEMSELVES IN A CAVE AT MAKKEDAH._ These five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave (Hebrew, the cave) at Makkedah. The pursuit was continued without interruption to Makkedah, at the foot of the western mountains, where Joshua seems to have halted with the mai... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT WAS TOLD JOSHUA, SAYING, THE FIVE KINGS ARE FOUND HID IN A CAVE AT MAKKEDAH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THEY BROUGHT OUT THOSE KINGS UNTO JOSHUA, THAT JOSHUA CALLED FOR ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL, AND SAID UNTO THE CAPTAINS OF THE MEN OF WAR WHICH WENT WITH HIM, COME NEAR, PUT YOUR FEET UPON THE NECKS OF THESE KINGS. AND THEY CAME NEAR, AND PUT THEIR FEET UPON THE NECKS OF THEM._... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA SAID UNTO THEM, FEAR NOT, NOR BE DISMAYED, BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE: FOR THUS SHALL THE LORD DO TO ALL YOUR ENEMIES AGAINST WHOM YE FIGHT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE TIME OF THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN, THAT JOSHUA COMMANDED, AND THEY TOOK THEM DOWN OFF THE TREES, AND CAST THEM INTO THE CAVE WHEREIN THEY HAD BEEN HID, AND LAID GREAT STONES IN THE CAVE'S MOUTH, WHICH REMAIN UNTIL THIS VERY DAY._ Laid great stones in the cave's mouth, wh... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THAT DAY JOSHUA TOOK MAKKEDAH, AND SMOTE IT WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, AND THE KING THEREOF HE UTTERLY DESTROYED, THEM, AND ALL THE SOULS THAT WERE THEREIN; HE LET NONE REMAIN: AND HE DID TO THE KING OF MAKKEDAH AS HE DID UNTO THE KING OF JERICHO._ That day Joshua took Makkedah. In this and t... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN JOSHUA PASSED FROM MAKKEDAH, AND ALL ISRAEL WITH HIM, UNTO LIBNAH, AND FOUGHT AGAINST LIBNAH:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY TOOK IT, AND SMOTE IT WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, AND THE KING THEREOF, AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF, AND ALL THE SOULS THAT WERE THEREIN; HE LEFT NONE REMAINING, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HE HAD DONE TO EGLON; BUT DESTROYED IT UTTERLY, AND ALL THE SOULS THAT WERE THEREIN._ SMOTE ... THE KING TH... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA RETURNED, AND ALL ISRAEL WITH HIM, TO DEBIR; AND FOUGHT AGAINST IT:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA SMOTE THEM FROM KADESH-BARNEA EVEN UNTO GAZA, AND ALL THE COUNTRY OF GOSHEN, EVEN UNTO GIBEON._ All the country of Goshen - (cf. Joshua 11:16.) 'The southern frontier of Palestine, which almost imperceptibly loses itself in the desert of Sinai, is sometimes called the land of "Goshen,... [ Continue Reading ]