Joshua 10:28

_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 the following verses is described the rapid succession of victory and extermination which sweat the whole of Southern Palestine into the hand of Israel. "All these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel. And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal....

28-43 Joshua made speed in taking these cities. See what a great deal of work may be done in a little time, if we will be diligent, and improve our opportunities. God here showed his hatred of the idolatries and other abominations of which the Canaanites had been guilty, and shows us how great the provocation was, by the greatness of the destruction brought upon them. Here also was typified the destruction of all the enemies of the Lord Jesus, who, having slighted the riches of his grace, must for ever feel the weight of his wrath. The Lord fought for Israel. They could not have gotten the victory, if God had not undertaken the battle. We conquer when God fights for us; if he be for us, who can be against us?...

Verse 28. _THAT DAY JOSHUA TOOK MAKKEDAH_] It is very possible that Makkedah was taken on the evening of the same day in which the miraculous _solstice_ took place; but as to the other cities mentioned in this chapter, they certainly were subdued some days after, as it is not possible that an army, exhausted as this must have been with a whole night's march, and two days' hard fighting, could have proceeded farther than Makkedah that night; the other cities were successively taken in the following days....

EXPOSITION THE BATTLE OF BETH-HORON, AND THE SUBJUGATION OF SOUTHERN PALESTINE.— JOSHUA 10:1 ADONI-ZEDEC (cf. Melchizedek in Genesis 14:18). The _name_ given to the king of Jerusalem was good enough, and no doubt was a survival of earlier and purer times. In the days of Melchizedek the name corresponded to the character. JERUSALEM. Hebrew, _Jerushalaim, _with the usual dual termination. It has been generally supposed to be the same with Salem, or rather Shalem, the city of which Melehizedek was king, and this is supported by the fact t

AND THAT DAY JOSHUA TOOK MAKKEDAH,.... Some say it was the day on which the sun stood still; but it seems to mean the day in which the five kings were hanged: AND SMOTE IT WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, AND THE KING THEREOF; slew the inhabitants of it and their king, after having entered and taken it: HE UTTERLY DESTROYED THEM AND ALL THE SOULS THAT [WERE] THEREIN, HE LET NONE REMAIN; that is, all human souls or persons; for the cattle were taken for a prey: AND HE DID TO THE KING OF MAKKEDAH AS HE DID UNTO THE KING OF JERICHO; slew him with the sword, along with the inhabitants, but did not hang him up, as he did the king of Ai and the five kings....

10. THE VICTORIOUS CONQUEST CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Adoni-zedec and his confederacy (Joshua 10:1)_ 2. The war (Joshua 10:7) 3. The miracle (Joshua 10:12) 4. The victory won (Joshua 10:16) 5. The five kings slain (Joshua 10:22) 6. Further conquests (Joshua 10:28) The name Jerusalem is mentioned here for the first time in the Bible. (Salem in...

CONQUEST OF S. CANAAN. This section is late and is from the hand of the Deuteronomist. Well-known passages in this and other books show it to be quite unhistorical. In 33 the king of Gezer (Judges 1:29 *, 1 Kings 9:16 *,) is said to have been slain with all his people, though from Joshua 16:10 we know that Gezer maintained its independence, and from Kings it appears that it did so till the time of Solomon. In Joshua 10:36 Hebron and Debir are taken, and all the inhabitants destroyed, though later on, in Joshua 15:13, we read that Caleb goes up against these t

SOULS. Plural of _nephesh._ App-14. Seven times in this chapter: Joshua 10:40 puts "all that breathed" instead. AS. according as....

The Conquest of Southern Palestine 28. _And that day_ The victory of Beth-horon did not stand alone. It involved other consequences in its train. It inaugurated a campaign, which may have lasted some weeks or even months, during which the whole of southern Canaan was swept into the hands of Israel. _took Makkedah_ The cities distinctly specified as now subdued are Makkedah, Libnah, Lachish, Eglon, Hebron, Debir. _and smote it with the edge of the sword_ As before at Ai (Joshua 8:24). Four times does this expression occur in the present section. _he let none remain_ This expression also occurs four times in the section. _as he did_ See chap. Joshua 6:21....

_VER._ 28. _AND THAT DAY JOSHUA TOOK MAKKEDAH_— Usher, by _that day,_ understands, the day of hanging the five kings; and he is of opinion, that it was the morning after the victory: but it seems more easy and plain to conceive, that Joshua carried the assault of Makkedah on the very day in which he defeated the confederate army, and immediately after he had executed the unfortunate princes who commanded it. We are not to be surprised that so many things should be done in one day, so long protracted as this was by the suspension of the sun's course. The king of Makkedah was not taken alive, like him of Ai, but put to the sword with all the inhabitants who had rejected peace; only the city, the cattle, and the spoil, were spared. _AND HE DID TO THE KING OF MAKKEDAH, AS HE DID UNTO THE KING OF JERICHO_— The Scripture does not say how the king of Jericho was treated; but it is presumed, fro...