Joshua 11:15

_AND ALL THE SPOIL OF THESE CITIES, AND THE CATTLE, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TOOK FOR A PREY UNTO THEMSELVES; BUT EVERY MAN THEY SMOTE WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, UNTIL THEY HAD DESTROYED THEM, NEITHER LEFT THEY ANY TO BREATHE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

15-23 Never let the sons of Anak be a terror to the Israel of God, for their day to fall will come. The land rested from war. It ended not in a peace with the Canaanites, that was forbidden, but in a peace from them. There is a rest, a rest from war, remaining for the people of God, into which they shall enter, when their warfare is accomplished. That which was now done, is compared with what had been said to Moses. God's word and his works, if viewed together, will be found mutually to set each other forth. If we make conscience of our duty, we need not question the performance of the promise. But the believer must never put off his armour, or expect lasting peace, till he closes his eyes in death; nay, as his strength and usefulness increase, he may expect more heavy trials; yet the Lord will not permit any enemies to assault the believer till he has prepared him for the battle. Chris...

EXPOSITION THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR.— JOSHUA 11:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS. The political constitution of Palestine was, humanly speaking, the cause of its overthrow. The division of the country into a host of petty states, and the consequent want of cohesion and concert, made its conquest a comparatively easy task. Had the kings of the north rallied round the standard set up in Central Palestine by Adoni-zedek, a far more formidable opposition would have been offered to Joshua at Gibeon. Calvin takes us, however, at once to the fountain head, and remarks how God fitted the burden to those who had to bear it. In spite of the great things God had done to them, they might have been driven to despair (and every one knows how weak their faith was) by the ove

AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES HIS SERVANT, SO DID MOSES COMMAND JOSHUA,.... Which was to destroy the people of the land, Deuteronomy 7:1; SO DID JOSHUA, HE LEFT NOTHING UNDONE OF ALL THAT THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES; both with respect to the destruction of the people, and of all their images, pictures, altars, groves, and high places; see Exodus 34:11....

FURTHER CONQUESTS CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Jabin and his confederacy (Joshua 11:1)_ 2. The divine encouragement (Joshua 11:6) 3. The victory (Joshua 11:7) 4. The obedience of Joshua (Joshua 11:15) 5. The continued conflict with the kings (Joshua 11:16) The Kings of the north formed the second confederacy, headed by Jabin, King of Hazor. Jabin means “understanding” and Hazor, “an enclosure.” He with other kings, and with them “much people even as the sand that is upon the seashore in multitude, with horses and chariots

JOSHUA 11. DEFEAT OF JABIN AND HIS COALITION. Jabin, king of Hazor, gathers a vast army of Canaanites at the Waters of Merom (locality uncertain, p. 32). The coalition was utterly defeated, the king was slain, and his city burnt. In Judges 4, a king of the same name and the same city appears, who for twenty years mightily oppressed the children of Israel. Joshua's victory here seems to be inconsistent with the account given of Jabin in Judges 4. The original story of Barak's campaign (Judges 5) has no reference to Jabin, but only to Sisera. The prose narrative (Judges 4) combines the war against Sisera with that against Jabin, and makes the former the general of the latter. It is noticeable that the terms of the short narrative in which the battle is here described are very vague and general, and 8, with its statement that the Israelites pursued their enemies as far as Zidon in the N. an...

AS. according as. Compare Exodus 34:11. ON. Compare Deuteronomy 7:2....

_As the Lord commanded Moses_ For this command of God to Moses comp. (_a_) Exodus 34:11-16; (_b_) Numbers 33:51-54; (_c_) Deuteronomy 20:16; and for the transference of the command to Joshua comp. (_a_) Numbers 27:18-23; (_b_) Deuteronomy 3:21. _he left nothing undone_ "he passide not beside of alle the maundementis," Wyclif. Conscientiousness in carrying out the Divine commands is thus represented as a prominent feature in Joshua's character....

_VER._ 15. _JOSHUA—LEFT NOTHING UNDONE OF ALL THAT THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES_— Spinosa is pleased to say, that this eulogy is too great to have fallen from the pen of Joshua; whence he concludes, that Joshua did not write this book, known by his name. What admirable reasoning is this! So that, in like manner, we are to refuse granting St. Paul to be the author of the epistles, in which he does justice to his own fidelity; and to deny that Caesar wrote those commentaries which are unanimously ascribed to him, because they specify his own great achievements....

_The Destruction of Hazor Joshua 11:10-15_ 10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms. 11 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire. 12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. 13 But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn. 14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroy