Jos 11 | TSK | STEP | Divers kings overcome at the waters of Merom. Hazor is taken and burnt. All the country taken by Joshua. The Anakims cut off. The land rest from war. Jabin. he sent. 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.

Joshua 11

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.

Be not.

10:8; Ps 27:1,2; 46:11

tomorrow.

3:5; Jud 20:28; 1Sa 11:9; 2Ch 20:16

hough.

9; 2Sa 8:4

horses.

De 7:16; Ps 20:7,8; 46:9; 147:10,11; Pr 20:7; Isa 30:16; 31:1

Ho 14:3

suddenly.

10:9; 1Th 5:2,3

the Lord.

21:44

great Zidon. or, Zidon-rabbah.

19:28; Ge 10:15; 49:13; Zec 9:2

Misrephoth-maim. or, salt pits. Heb. burning of waters.

13:6

he houghed.

6; Eze 39:9,10

Hazor.

1; Jud 4:2

any left to breathe. Heb. any breath.

10:40

all the.

10:28,30,32,35,37,39,40

as Moses.

15; 8:8,31; 9:24; 10:40; Nu 33:52,53; De 7:2; 20:16,17

in their. Heb. on their heap.The Vulgate, Syriac, Onkelos and Waterland render {âl tillom,} "on their hills." As the cities of the plain might be easily attacked and carried, Joshua destroyed them; but as those on mountains, hills, or other eminences, might be retained by him with little trouble, prudence would dictate their preservation.

Jer 30:18

the spoil.

8:27; Nu 31:9; De 6:10,11; 20:14

neither.

11; 10:40

the Lord.

12; Ex 34:11-13

so did Moses.

De 7:2; 31:7

and so did Joshua.

1:7; Ex 39:42,43; De 4:5; 2Ch 30:12

he left nothing. Heb. removed nothing.

De 4:2; 12:32; 1Sa 15:1-3,8,9,11,19-22; Mt 23:23; Lu 11:42

Ac 20:20,27

all that land.

Ge 15:18-21; Nu 34:2-13; De 34:2,3

hills.

9:1; 12:8

the land.

10:41

the mountain.

21; Eze 17:23; 36:1-3,8

the mount Halak. or, the smooth mountain. that goeth.

Ge 32:3; De 2:1; 33:2

Seir.

3; 1:4; 12:7; 13:5

all their.

12:7-24; De 7:24

a long time.Caleb was forty years old when sent from Kadesh-barnea to spy the land, and he was eighty-five at the conclusion of this war. (ch. 14:10.) Almost thirty-nine years of this time were spent before Israel passed Jordan; which leaves between six and seven for the term of Joshua's wars.

23; 14:7-10

the Hivites.

9:3-27

it was.

Ex 4:21; 9:16; De 2:30; Jud 14:4; 1Sa 2:25; 1Ki 12:15; 22:20-23

2Ch 25:16; Isa 6:9,10; Ro 9:18,22,23

as the Lord.

12-15; De 20:16,17

the Anakims.

14:12-14; 15:13,14; Nu 13:22,23; De 1:28; 2:21; 9:2; Jud 1:10,11,20

Jer 3:23; 9:23; Am 2:9

Joshua destroyed.