They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.
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They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.
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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.
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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 he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls that were therein.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jos 10:37 And they took it, and smote it…
Jos 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.
Ver. 37. And the king thereof.] The new king for the old king was hanged among those five that came up against Gibeon. {Jos 10:5; Jos 10:23; Jos 10:26} He might have as short a reign as had Marius in Rome, whom one day saw an emperor, the next day he ruled, and the third day he was slain by a soldier, with the same sword which himself had made when he was a cutler.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The king thereof; either him mentioned before, Jos 10:23…
The king thereof; either him mentioned before, Jos 10:23 whose death is here repeated in this account of the general destruction of all the inhabitants of that place, or his heir or successor.
All the cities thereof which were subject to its jurisdiction; this being, it seems, a royal city, as Gibeon was, Jos 10:2, and having cities under it as that had, Jos 9:17.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to…
And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir,.... A city, according to Kimchi, which he passed by when he went to Hebron, and did not fight against it; but, when he had taken Hebron, returned and took it; and which Bunting (h) says was but a mile from it, and twenty two miles from Jerusalem, towards the south; it is the same with Kirjathsepher and Kirjathsannah, Jos 15:15; the city of a book or books; and the Rabbins say (i), that with the Persians Debir signifies the same, and had its name from a library which was here kept, or from the archives in which the most memorable things since the flood were recorded; or from the making of paper or parchment, or whatsoever was made use of for writing, and of which volumes of books were made:
and fought against it; it refusing to submit to him upon his summons.
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(h) Travels of the Patriarchs, &c. p. 96. (i) T. Bab. Avodah Zarah, fol. 24. 2.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain All the cities - Which were subject to its…
All the cities - Which were subject to its jurisdiction; this being, it seems, a royal city as Gibeon was, ver. 2, and having cities under it as that had.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 37. See Clarke on Jos 10:36.
Verse 37. See Clarke on Jos 10:36.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The king thereof - No doubt the successor of…
The king thereof - No doubt the successor of the king slain at Makkedah Jos 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.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The king, viz., the new king, who succeeded him…
The king, viz., the new king, who succeeded him that was slain, ver. 26. (Challoner) --- Caleb afterwards took Hebron, which, it seems, the Chanaanites had seized again and fortified, while Josue was conquering other parts of the country. He could not leave garrisons in all the cities which he took, and hence he set many of them on fire. After the strength of the country was broken, he knew that the Israelites might easily subdue the few isolated cities which he was forced to leave behind. But they proved so negligent, that many places were left in the possession of the Chanaanites, which proved a stumbling block to God’s people.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 37. and the king thereof] The successor doubtless of…
37. and the king thereof] The successor doubtless of the chief who fell at Makkedah. See above, Jos_10:23.
all the cities thereof] i.e. all the smaller towns dependent upon it; “alle the burgh touns of that region,” Wyclif.
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