Joshua 10:37

_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 THEREOF - i:e., of Hebron. In Joshua 10:23 it is related that the king of Hebron had fallen in battle. The people had elected a successor, whose short-lived reign is noticed, he being killed in the general overthow of Hebron and its dependencies....

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 Joshua 10:37. Joshua 10:36....

THE KING THEREOF - No doubt the successor of the king slain at Makkedah Joshua 10:23. ALL THE CITIES THEREOF - i. e. the smaller towns dependent upon Hebron. The expression marks Hebron as the metropolis of other subject towns....

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 THEY TOOK IT, AND SMOTE IT WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, AND THE KING THEREOF,.... For though the king of Hebron was one of the kings that were taken in the cave of Makkedah, and hanged; yet before Joshua came up to it, they had set up another king over them: AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF; for Hebron was a metropolitan city, and had other cities dependent on it, and subject to it: AND ALL THE SOULS THAT [WERE] THEREIN; both in Hebron, and in the cities subject to it: HE LEFT NONE REMAINING; in any of them: ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HE HAD DONE TO EGLON; the last place he came from: BUT DESTROYED IT UTTERLY, AND ALL THE SOULS THAT [WERE] THEREIN; but it seems that afterwards some that made their escape before the taking of the city, and other Canaanites driven out of their habitations, repeopled it; so that after Joshua's death it was recovered again by the tribe

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

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._ 36, 37. _AND-37 JOSHUA WENT UP FROM EGLON—UNTO HEBRON_— The king of Hebron was one of the five confederated against Israel. They must, therefore, have quickly appointed him a successor; and it was this successor whom Joshua _put to the sword._ With respect to Hebron itself, we have already more than once spoken of it in the history of Abraham. See Genesis 13:18. It fell to the tribe of Judah, and was situated among the mountains. All the towns in the district of _Hebron,_ which was the capital, and consequently figured among the principal cities of the country, were involved in the common fate. Caleb was one of the chief instruments in this conquest, and signalised himself by the defeat of the three sons of Anak; ch. Joshua 15:13.