Jos 10:2-5, 23, 28-39, 11:1-5, 10-11, 12:7-24 | TSK | STEP | they feared. Gibeon.Gibeon was situated on an eminence, as its name imports, 40 furlongs north from Jerusalem, according to Josephus. the royal cities. Heb. cities of the kingdom.

Joshua 10:2-5

they feared.

2:9-13,24; Ex 15:14-16; De 11:25; 28:10; Ps 48:4-6; Pr 1:26,27

Gibeon.Gibeon was situated on an eminence, as its name imports, 40 furlongs north from Jerusalem, according to Josephus.

the royal cities. Heb. cities of the kingdom.

1Sa 27:5; 2Sa 12:26

king of Jerusalem.

1,5; 12:10-13; 15:35-39,54,63; 18:28

Hebron.Hebron was situated on an eminence, 20 miles south of Jerusalem, and the same distance north of Beersheba. It is now called El Khalil, "the well-beloved," the usual epithet which the Turks and Arabs apply to Abraham, whose sepulchral cave they still shew; over which St. Helena built a magnificent church. Its original site was on an eminence, at the southern foot of which the present village is pleasantly situated, on which are the remains of an ancient castle, its sole defence.

14:15; Ge 23:2; 37:14; Nu 13:22; 2Sa 2:11

Lachish.

2Ki 18:14,17; 2Ch 11:9; Mic 1:13

and help.

Isa 8:9,10; 41:5-7; Ac 9:24-27; 21:28; Re 16:14; 20:8-10

we may.

1; 9:15; Mt 16:24; Joh 15:19; 16:2,3; Ac 9:23; 2Ti 3:12; Jas 4:4

1Pe 4:4

6; 9:1,2; Ge 15:16; Isa 8:9,10

Joshua 10:23

1,3,5

Joshua 10:28-39

Makkedah.Situated, according to Eusebius, 8 miles east from Eleutheropolis. It was afterwards assigned to the tribe of Judah.

15:41

them.

32,35,37,39; 6:21; De 7:2,16; 20:16,17; Ps 21:8,9; 110:1; Lu 19:27

1Co 15:25

and he did.

30; 8:2

Libnah.This city was situated in the south of Judah, and in the district of Eleutheropolis, according to Eusebius and Jerome. It is probably the Libnah in the neighbourhood of which the Israelites encamped.

12:15; 15:42; 21:13; Nu 33:20; 2Ki 8:22; 19:8; Jer 52:1

as he did.

28; 6:21; 8:2,29

Lachish.Lachish was also situated in the south of Judah, seven miles south from Eleutheropolis, according to Eusebius and Jerome. It appears to have been anciently a very strong place; for though the people were panic struck, and the Israelites flushed with success, yet Joshua could not reduce it till the second day; and the king of Assyria afterwards was obliged to raise the siege.

3,5; 12:11; 15:39; 2Ki 19:8; 2Ch 11:9; Isa 37:8; Mic 1:13

to Libnah.

Gezer.Gezer was situated on the confines of Ephraim and Manasseh, between Beth-horon and the sea; and is evidently the village of Gazara mentioned by Eusebius, four miles (north) from Nicopolis or Emmaus.

12:12; 16:3,10; 21:21; Jud 1:29; 1Ki 9:16,17; 1Ch 6:67; 20:4

Eglon.This town appears to have been no great distance from Lachish, with which it is mentioned, ch. 15:39, as one of the cities given to Judah.

3; 12:12; 15:39

on that day.

utterly.

37; Le 26:44; Job 19:10

Hebron.

3,5; 14:13,14; 15:13,54; 21:13; Ge 13:18; Nu 13:22; Jud 1:10

2Sa 5:1-5; 15:9,10; 1Ch 12:23,28

the king.From ver. 23, we learn that the king of Hebron was one of the five whom Joshua slew and hanged on five trees at Makkedah. This slaying of the king of Hebron, therefore, must either refer to what had already been done, or the Hebronites had set up another, whom Joshua now slew when he took the city.

according.

Debir.Debir was situated in the south of the tribe of Judah, near Hebron. The expression of Joshua's returning to Debir, probably denotes, that having carried his conquests in the southern parts as far as Gaza, (ver. 41,) which was in the south-west angle of Canaan, he then marched back to besiege Debir.

12:13; 15:15,49; 21:15; Jud 1:11-15

he left none.

33,37,40; 11:8; De 3:3; 2Ki 10:11; Ob 1:18

Joshua 11:1-5

1 Divers kings overcome at the waters of Merom.

10 Hazor is taken and burnt.

16 All the country taken by Joshua.

21 The Anakims cut off.

23 The land rest from war.

Jabin.

10; 12:19; 19:36; Jud 4:2,17

he sent.

10:3,4; Ps 2:1-4; 83:1-3; Isa 26:11; 43:2,5-7

Madon.The LXX. read [Marón,] which, if legitimate, Calmet thinks may be the same as Maronia or Marath, in Phoenicia, to the north of mount Lebanon, ch. 12:19, 20; 19:15, 25.

Shimron.Supposed to be the same with Symira, in Coele-Syria, joined to Maron or Marath by Pliny and Pomponius Mela.

Achshaph.Supposed by some to be the same as Achzib or Ecdippa; from which, however, it is distinguished in ch. 19:25, 29. It was in the northern part of the tribe of Asher.

on the north.

21; 10:6,40; Lu 1:39

Chinneroth.Jerome and others suppose this city to be same as was afterwards called Tiberias, now Tabaria, situated on the western shore of the lake of the same name.

12:3

See on

Nu 34:11

Chinnereth.

Lu 5:1

Gennesaret. Dor.

12:23; 17:11; Jud 1:27; 1Ki 4:11

the Jebusite.

15:63; Nu 13:29; 2Sa 24:16

Hivite.

Jud 3:3

Hermon.

13:11; De 4:48; Ps 89:12; 133:3; So 4:8

land.

18:26; Ge 31:49; Jud 20:1; 21:5,8; 1Sa 7:5-7; 10:17; 1Ki 15:22

Jer 40:6,10; 41:3,14

as the sand.

Ge 22:17; 32:12; Jud 7:12; 1Sa 13:5; 2Sa 17:11; 1Ki 4:20

all these.

Ps 3:1; 118:10-12; Isa 8:9; Re 16:14

met together. Heb. assembled by appointment. waters.This is what Josephus calls the lake Semechon, now called Bahr-el-Houlé (Lake Julius) between the head of the Jordan and the lake of Tiberias. According to Josephus it was seven miles long; and according to modern authorities, it is not above two miles broad, except at the north end, where it may be four.

Joshua 11:10-11

Hazor.

1; Jud 4:2

any left to breathe. Heb. any breath.

10:40

Joshua 12:7-24

on this side.

1; 3:17; 9:1

Baal-gad.

11:17; 13:5

Seir.

Ge 14:6; 32:3; 36:8,20,30; De 2:1,4

Joshua gave.

1:3,4; 11:23; 13:1-19:51; De 11:23,24

the mountains.

10:40; 11:16

the Hittites.

9:1; Ge 15:18-21; Ex 3:8; 23:23,28-31; De 7:1; 9:1

Jericho.

Ai.

Jerusalem.

Hebron.

Jarmuth.Placed by Eusebius and Jerome four miles from Eleutheropolis, near Eshtaol; but, in Jermus, which is probably the same, they state it to be ten miles from Eleutheropolis, towards Jerusalem; which is supposed to be nearer the truth.

10:3-23

Lachish.Eusebius and Jerome say it was a village in their time, seven miles south from Eleutheropolis.

10:3,23,31,32

Eglon.

10:3,23; 15:39

Gezer.Gezer appears to have situated in the tribe of Ephraim, near Beth-horon, between it and the sea. Eusebius and Jerome place it four miles north of Nicopolis or Emmaus.

10:33

Debir.

10:3,38

Geder.

15:36

Hormah.

Nu 14:45; 21:3

Arad.Eusebius places this city in the neighbourhood of Kadesh, four miles from Malathis, and twenty from Hebron.

Nu 21:1

Libnah.Eusebius and Jerome inform us, that Libnah was a town or village in their time, lying in the district of Eleutheropolis.

10:29,30

Adullam.