Joshua 10:1
ADONIZEDEK] The name recalls that of his famous predecessor Melchizedek, the contemporary of Abraham: see on Genesis 14:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
ADONIZEDEK] The name recalls that of his famous predecessor Melchizedek, the contemporary of Abraham: see on Genesis 14:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CONQUEST OF SOUTHERN CANAAN This chapter narrates the successful campaign against the five confederate chiefs of the S., who are roused by the fall of Jericho and Ai and the alliance with Gibeon, and combine under the leadership of Adonizedek of Jerusalem to retaliate upon the Gibeonites. Bring... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE GIBEON WAS A GREAT CITY] commanding the chief pass to the western plains and but a few miles from Jerusalem: see on Joshua 10:10. 3, 4. Of the confederate cities three were subsequently reduced by Joshua: see on Joshua 10:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
AMORITES] a general name for the mountain tribes. 6-14. Battle of Gibeon (or Beth-horon): Joshua, summoned by the Gibeonites to their aid, def eates the Amorites.... [ Continue Reading ]
The pass of BETH-HORON leading to the valley of Aijalon is of great strategic importance, being the main outlet from Gibeon and Jerusalem towards the coast. 'Throughout history,' says G. A. Smith, 'we see hosts swarming up this avenue or swept down it in flight.' AZEKAH.. MAKKEDAH] between Philistia... [ Continue Reading ]
GREAT STONES FROM HEAVEN] a hailstorm, in which the hand of God is discerned.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SPAKE JOSHUA] This celebrated passage (as will be seen in RV) consists of (1) a prose introduction, Joshua 10:12; (2) a poetical fragment quoted from the book of Jasher, Joshua 10:12; Joshua 10:13; and (3) a prose comment on that quotation, 13b; 14. The four lines from the book of Jasher run, l... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BOOK OF JASHER] _Yashar_='Upright' or 'Pious.' The book was presumably a collection of national heroic songs. Elsewhere it is quoted by name only in 2 Samuel 1:18 (David's elegy over Saul and Jonathan). Possibly we may ascribe to the same source other poems, like the Song of Deborah (Judges 5),... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT THEIR FEET UPON THE NECKS] The monuments of Assyria and Egypt afford graphic parallels.... [ Continue Reading ]
SLEW THEM AND HANGED THEM] The hanging was an additional insult wreaked on the corpse: cp. Deuteronomy 21:22; Deuteronomy 21:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIBNAH] in the lowlands of Judah: also LACHISH (Joshua 10:31), GEZER (Joshua 10:33) and EGLON (Joshua 10:34).... [ Continue Reading ]
HEBRON] (_El Khalil_, 'the friend' of God) Abraham's city in the mountain of Judah, and one of the six Levitical cities of refuge (20 T).... [ Continue Reading ]
DEBIR] also called Kirjath-Sepher, and falling, like Hebron, to Caleb. It lay in the hill-country of Judah, or in the Negeb (Joshua 15:15), perhaps on the border. 40-43. On these divisions of the country see on Joshua 15. A summary like this must not be pressed too literally, but read in the light o... [ Continue Reading ]
The campaign in southern Palestine included the HILLS of Judah, the SOUTH, i.e. the Negeb, the VALE (RV 'the lowland'), i.e. the Shephelah, and the SPRINGS (RV 'the slopes') between the hill-country and the Shephelah.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOSHEN] in the mountain of Judah (Joshua 15:51). In Joshua 9-11 inclusive we have the account of two great campaigns, in which Joshua successively defeats a confederacy of the petty kings of southern Palestine under the king of Jerusalem, and a combination of the northern chiefs under Jabin, king of... [ Continue Reading ]