Joshua 10:39

_AND JOSHUA RETURNED, AND ALL ISRAEL WITH HIM, TO DEBIR; AND FOUGHT AGAINST IT:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

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 10:39. _DESTROYED ALL THE SOULS_] ויחרימו את כל נפש _vaiyacharimu eth col nephesh_, they brought every person under an _anathema_; they either slew them or reduced them to a state of slavery. Is it reasonable to say those were slain who were _found_ _in arms_, of the others they made _slaves_?...

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 HE TOOK IT, AND THE KING THEREOF, AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF,.... For this also was a royal city, and had others dependent on it; and therefore must lie further from Hebron than before suggested; and indeed Burchard k says it was five or six miles from it, and another writer l says ten miles: AND THEY SMOTE THEM WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD; the inhabitants of Debir, and the other cities adjacent to it; AND UTTERLY DESTROYED ALL THE SOULS THAT [WERE] THEREIN, HE LEFT NONE REMAINING; and yet it seems this city recovered again, and was reinhabited, and after the death of Joshua was taken by Othniel, Judges 1:11; unless, as before observed, with respect to Hebron, there is there a more particular account of the taking of it at this time: AS HE HAD DONE TO HEBRON, SO DID HE TO DEBIR, AND TO THE KING THEREOF, as he had done

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....

_The Summary of the Conquest Joshua 10:28-43_ 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. 29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah: 30 And the Lord delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho. 31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it: 32 And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smot

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. Bringing succour, as in duty bound, to his new allies, Joshua encounters the confederate forces in Beth-horon. By divine aid he inflicts on them a signal defeat, captures and slays all five kings, and follows up his success by a prompt reduction of six Amorite strongholds in swift succession. A concluding paragraph (Joshua 10:40) describes the work of conquest so far, as summary and complete....