Parallel Verses English Standard Version Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining. King James Bible Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining. American Standard Version Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining. Douay-Rheims Bible At that time Horam king of Gazer, came up to succour Lachis: and Josue slew him with all his people, so as to leave none alive. English Revised Version Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining. Webster's Bible Translation Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining. Joshua 10:33 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentJoshua then commanded the five kings to be fetched out of the cave, and directed the leaders of the army to set their feet upon the necks of the kings; and when this had been done, he ordered the kings to be put to death, and to be hanged upon trees until the evening, when their bodies were to be thrown into the cave in which they had concealed themselves. Of course this did not take place till the day after the battle, as the army could not return from their pursuit of the foe to the camp at Makkedah till the night after the battle; possibly it did not take place till the second day, if the pursuit had lasted any longer. In Joshua 10:24, "all the men of Israel" are all the warriors in the camp. ההלכוּא, with ה artic., instead of the relative pronoun (see Ges. 109; Ew. 331, b.); and the ending וּא for וּ or וּן, as in Isaiah 28:12 (see Ew. 190, b.). The fact that the military leaders set their feet at Joshua's command upon the necks of the conquered kings, was not a sign of barbarity, which it is necessary to excuse by comparing it with still greater barbarities on the part of the Canaanites, as in Judges 1:7, but was a symbolical act, a sign of complete subjugation, which was customary in this sense even in the Eastern empire (see Bynaeus de calceis, p. 318, and Constant. Porphyrogen de cerimon. aulae Byzant. ii. 19). It was also intended in this instance to stimulate the Israelites to further conflict with the Canaanites. This is stated in the words of Joshua (Joshua 10:25): "Fear not, nor be dismayed (vid., Joshua 1:9; Joshua 8:1); for thus shall the Lord do to all your enemies." On the putting to death and then hanging, see Joshua 8:29 and Deuteronomy 21:22-23. The words וגו ויּשׂימוּ (Joshua 10:27) are generally understood as signifying, that after the bodies of the kings had been cast into the cave, the Israelites placed large stones before the entrance, just as in other cases heaps of stones were piled upon the graves of criminals that had been executed (vid., Joshua 7:25), and that these stones remained there till the account before us was written. But this leaves the words עצם עד unexplained, as עצם never occurs in any other case where the formula "until this day" is used with the simple meaning that a thing had continued to the writer's own time. הזּה היּום עצם expresses the thought that the day referred to was the very same day about which the author was writing, and no other (see Joshua 5:11; Genesis 7:13; Genesis 17:23; Exodus 12:17, etc.). If, therefore, it has any meaning at all in the present instance, we must connect the whole clause with the one preceding, and even construe it as a relative clause: "where they (the kings) had hidden themselves, and they (the Israelites) had placed large stones at the mouth of the cave until that very day" (on which the kings were fetched out and executed). Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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. Joshua 12:12 The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; Cross References Joshua 10:32 And the LORD gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah. Joshua 10:34 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Lachish to Eglon. And they laid siege to it and fought against it. Joshua 16:3 Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea. Joshua 16:10 However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor. Judges 1:29 And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them. 1 Kings 9:16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife; Jump to Previous Army Death Defeated Help Joshua Lachish Meanwhile Overcame Putting Remaining Remnant Smiteth Smote Struck Survivor SurvivorsJump to Next Army Death Defeated Help Joshua Lachish Meanwhile Overcame Putting Remaining Remnant Smiteth Smote Struck Survivor SurvivorsLinks Joshua 10:33 NIVJoshua 10:33 NLT Joshua 10:33 ESV Joshua 10:33 NASB Joshua 10:33 KJV Joshua 10:33 Bible Apps Joshua 10:33 Biblia Paralela Joshua 10:33 Chinese Bible Joshua 10:33 French Bible Joshua 10:33 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |