From Nave’s Topical Bible
Makkedah
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 4Passages listed
- 1Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- A city in the territory of the tribe of Judah, conquered by JoshuaJoshua 10:28Joshua 12:16
- Five kings of the Amorites hide in a cave of, and are killed by JoshuaJoshua 10:5Joshua 10:16–27
The passages, in Bible order (4)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Joshua 10:5
So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it.
Commentary on Joshua 10:51 voice
The five kings of the Amorites - This is a general name for the inhabitants of Canaan, otherwise called Canaanites; and it is very likely that they had this appellation because the Amorites were the most powerful tribe or nation in that country. The inhabitants of Jerusalem were Jebusites, Jos 15:63; those of Hebron were Hittites, Gen 23:2, Gen 23:3; Gen 25:9, Gen 25:10; and the Gibeonites were Hivites, Jos 9:7; and yet all these are called Amorites occasionally, probably for the reason already mentioned, viz., because that tribe was most numerous and powerful.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Joshua 10:16–27
Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
Commentary on Joshua 10:16–272 voices
A cave - A place of the greatest secrecy; but there is no escaping the eye or hand of God. At Makkedah - Hebrew. in Makkedah, not in the city, for that was not yet taken; but in the territory of it.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
Hid themselves in a cave - It is very likely that this cave was a fortified place among some rocks; for there were many such places in different parts of Palestine.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Joshua 10:28
On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and put it to the sword, along with its king. He devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Commentary on Joshua 10:282 voices
That day Joshua took Makkedah - It is very possible that Makkedah was taken on the evening of the same day in which the miraculous solstice took place; but as to the other cities mentioned in this chapter, they certainly were subdued some days after, as it is not possible that an army, exhausted as this must have been with a whole night’s march, and two days’ hard fighting, could have proceeded farther than Makkedah that night; the other cities were successively taken in the following days.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
And that day - On which the sun stood still. Nor is it strange that so much work was done, and places so far distant taken in one day, when the day was so long, and the Canaanites struck with such a terror.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
- Joshua 12:16
the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
Commentary on Joshua 12:161 voice
The king of Makkedah, one,.... In a cave near to which five kings hid themselves, and were taken out and hanged, and the city afterwards was taken by Joshua, Jos 10:16; which fell to the lot of the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:41, the king of Bethel, one; a city near to Ai, about a mile from it, and yet had a king over it: it was taken at the same time that Ai was, Jos 7:2; and fell to the lot of Benjamin, Jos 18:22.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed