Jos 11:1-9 - Commentary

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Text -- Joshua 11:1-9 (NET)

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Israel Defeats a Northern Coalition

11:1 When King Jabin of Hazor heard the news, he organized a coalition, including King Jobab of Madon, the king of Shimron, the king of Acshaph, 11:2 and the northern kings who ruled in the hill country, the Arabah south of Kinnereth, the lowlands, and the heights of Dor to the west. 11:3 Canaanites came from the east and west; Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites from the hill country; and Hivites from below Hermon in the area of Mizpah. 11:4 These kings came out with their armies; they were as numerous as the sand on the seashore and had a large number of horses and chariots. 11:5 All these kings gathered and joined forces at the Waters of Merom to fight Israel. 11:6 The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid of them, for about this time tomorrow I will cause all of them to lie dead before Israel. You must hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.” 11:7 Joshua and his whole army caught them by surprise at the Waters of Merom and attacked them. 11:8 The Lord handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, Misrephoth Maim, and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained. 11:9 Joshua did to them as the Lord had commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.

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Names, People and Places:

· Achshaph a town of Canaanites in Asher (OS)

· Amorites members of a pre-Israel Semitic tribe from Mesopotamia

· Arabah a town of Judea west of Jerusalem on the border of Benjamin

· Canaanite residents of the region of Canaan

· Chinneroth a lake in Galilee on the Jordan River,a region; the plain on the NW shoulder of Lake Chinneroth

· Hazor a town 15 km north of Chinnereth, the NW shore of Galilee,a town of south-eastern Judah,a town of south-eastern Judah 20 km south of Hebron (OS),a town of Ephraim 25 km north of Jerusalem,a collective name for some semi-namadic Arabs as distinct from the bedoin of the desert (OS)

· Hermon a mountain half way between Damascus and Tyre

· Hittite a person/people living in the land of Syro-Palestine

· Hivite a person/people descended from Canaan son of Ham son of Noah

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Jabin king of Hazor in the time of Joshua,king of Canaan in Hazor in the time of Judge Deborah and Baruch

· Jebusite resident(s) of the town of Jebus (Jerusalem)

· Jobab son of Joktan of Shem,son of Zerah; second king of Edom,King of Madon; an enemy of Joshua,a man of Benjamin; son of Shaharaim and Hodesh,son of Elpaal of Benjamin

· Joshua a son of Eliezer; the father of Er; an ancestor of Jesus,the son of Nun and successor of Moses,son of Nun of Ephraim; successor to Moses,a man: owner of the field where the ark stopped,governor of Jerusalem under King Josiah,son of Jehozadak; high priest in the time of Zerubbabel

· Madon a town of Canaanites in Naphtali

· Merom a spring or springs in the territory of Naphtali

· Misrephoth-maim a place: south border of Sidon, possibly rocky headland (IBD)

· Misrephoth-Maim a place: south border of Sidon, possibly rocky headland (IBD)

· Mizpah a town of Moab

· Naphoth-dor a region around the town of Dor

· Naphoth-Dor a region around the town of Dor

· Perizzite a people of ancient Canaan in the later territory of Ephraim

· Shimron son of Issachar son of Israel,a town of Zebulun 17 km west of Mt. Tabor & 14 km north of Megiddo

· Sidon residents of the town of Sidon

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jos 11:1 Heb “he sent to.”

NET Notes: Jos 11:2 Kinnereth was a city in Galilee located near the Sea of Galilee (Deut 3:17). The surrounding region also became known by this name (1 Kgs 15:20; cf. M...

NET Notes: Jos 11:3 Or “land.”

NET Notes: Jos 11:4 Heb “They and all their camps with them came out, a people as numerous as the sand which is on the edge of the sea in multitude, and [with] hors...

NET Notes: Jos 11:5 Heb “and came and camped together.”

NET Notes: Jos 11:6 Heb “burn with fire”; the words “with fire” are redundant in English and have not been included in the translation.

NET Notes: Jos 11:7 Heb “Joshua and all the people of war with him came upon them at the Waters of Merom suddenly and fell upon them.”

NET Notes: Jos 11:8 The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

NET Notes: Jos 11:9 Heb “burned with fire”; the words “with fire” are redundant in English and have not been included in the translation.

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