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 <02985> [Jabin.]
coalition <07971> [he sent.]
Madon <04068> [Madon.]
The LXX. read [Mar¢n,] 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 <08110> [Shimron.]
Supposed to be the same with Symira, in Coele-Syria, joined to Maron or Marath by Pliny and Pomponius Mela.
Acshaph <0407> [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.
northern <06828> [on the north.]
Kinnereth <03672> [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.
[See on]
[Chinnereth.]
[Gennesaret. Dor.]
Jebusites <02983> [the Jebusite.]
Hivites <02340> [Hivite.]
Hermon <02768> [Hermon.]
area <0776> [land.]
sand <02344> [as the sand.]
kings <04428> [all these.]
gathered <03259> [met together. Heb. assembled by appointment. waters.]
This is what Josephus calls the lake Semechon, now called Bahr-el-Houl‚ (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.
afraid <03372> [Be not.]
[tomorrow.]
hamstring <06131> [hough.]
horses <05483> [horses.]
by surprise <06597> [suddenly.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
[great Zidon. or, Zidon-rabbah.]
Misrephoth <04956> [Misrephoth-maim. or, salt pits. Heb. burning of waters.]
hamstrung <06131> [he houghed.]
Hazor ........... Hazor <02674> [Hazor.]
breathed remained <05397 03498> [any left to breathe. Heb. any breath.]
royal cities ..... kings <05892 04428> [all the.]
Moses <04872> [as Moses.]
mounds <08510> [in their. Heb. on their heap.]
The Vulgate, Syriac, Onkelos and Waterland render {Æ’l 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.
goods <07998> [the spoil.]
live <07604> [neither.]
Lord's .......................... Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Moses ............................... Moses <04872> [so did Moses.]
Joshua ... Joshua did <03091 06213> [and so did Joshua.]
did ... ignore ..... commands <05493 01697> [he left nothing. Heb. removed nothing.]
land ........... land <0776> [all that land.]
hill country ............... hill country <02022> [hills.]
land ........... land <0776> [the land.]
hill country ............... hill country <02022> [the mountain.]
Mount Halak ................ Mount <02510 02022> [the mount Halak. or, the smooth mountain. that goeth.]
Seir <08165> [Seir.]
kings <04428> [all their.]
quite ... time <07227 03117> [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.
Hivites <02340> [the Hivites.]
Lord <03068> [it was.]
Lord <03068> [as the Lord.]
Anakites <06062> [the Anakims.]
Joshua ........................ Joshua annihilated <03091 02763> [Joshua destroyed.]
Gaza <05804> [only in Gaza.]
Ashdod <0795> [Ashdod.]
Lord <03068> [according to all.]
portions <04256> [according to their.]
land .................. land <0776> [And the land.]
