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Joshua 10:21

in Joshua 10

The whole army returned safely to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah, and no one dared to utter a word against the Israelites.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

KJV

And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

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This verse in Joshua 10

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace,.... Sound and well, as not one killed or missing, so not one wounded, as the Vulgate Latin version,"sound and in full number:" none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel; as to curse them, reproach them, and speak ill of them, for invading them, and using them in the manner they did, such was the terror that was upon them.

This site's exposition

an end of slaying them

on Joshua 10:20-21

Verse 20 grants what verse 19 tried to prevent, that a remnant reached the fenced cities, and the rest of the chapter is Joshua taking those cities one at a time. Verse 21 closes with a line carried over from the night Israel left Egypt, none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel, which answers to Exodus 11:7, where not a dog would move his tongue against them. There the words belonged to the plague of the firstborn; here they are said of a whole country in arms.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Joshua himself remained at Makkedah with the guards set before the cave. The other warriors would not return from the pursuit until the evening of the overthrow of the Amorites; and the execution of the kings and the capture of Makkedah itself belong, no doubt, to the day following Jos 10:27-28. None moved his tongue - See the marginal reference and note.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּשֻׁבוּ֩and they returned

    vaiyashuvuH7725 →1056 times

  • כָל־all

    khol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֨םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמַּחֲנֶ֧הthe camp

    hamachanehH4264 →215 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • מַקֵּדָ֖הMakkedah

    makedahH4719 →9 times

  • בְּשָׁל֑וֹםin peace

    beshalomH7965 →

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • חָרַ֞ץhe sharpened

    charatzH2782 →

  • לִבְנֵ֧יto [the] people of

    livneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֛לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • לְאִ֖ישׁto anyone

    leishH376 →1663 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃tongue his

    leshonoH3956 →117 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 54:17

    No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the…

    it leads to

    • Romans 8:28–39

      And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

    • Isaiah 54:15

      If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me; whoever assails you will fall before you.

    • John 10:28–30

      I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

    • Isaiah 50:8

      The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!

    • Romans 8:1

      Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

  • Through

    Exodus 11:7

    But among all the Israelites, not even a dog will snarl at man or beast.’ Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 8:22

      But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people live; no swarms of flies will be found there. In this way you will know that I,…

    • Malachi 3:18

      So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

    • Exodus 10:23

      No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.

About Joshua

Joshua Commands the Sun to Stand Still — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Joshua Commands the Sun to Stand Still — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.

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