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Joshua 10:22

in Joshua 10

Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings unto me out of the cave.

KJV

Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.

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This verse in Joshua 10

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(2.) He would hereby have the promise by Moses made good ( Deut. xxxiii. 29 ), Thou shalt tread upon their high places, that is, their great men, which should the rather be speedily fulfilled in the letter because they are the very last words of Moses that we find upon record.

This site's exposition

bring out those five kings

on Joshua 10:22-24

Setting the foot on the neck of a beaten king is a known act in the ancient east, carved on Egyptian and Assyrian monuments and meant as a public statement of who now rules. Joshua does not do it himself but calls the captains forward, so the sign is given to the men who have the rest of the land still to fight. Psalm 110:1 uses the same picture of enemies made a footstool, and Hebrews 10:12 to 13 applies that verse to Christ seated at the right hand of God.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then said Joshua, open the mouth of the cave,.... That is, roll away the great stones that were laid at the mouth of it: and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave; to receive their sentence in a public manner, for the encouragement of his troops and the terror of the Canaanites, particularly Makkedah, now besieged by him.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

The last act, probably the next day, was the disposal of the prisoners, among whom the five kings were consigned to the infamous doom of being slain (De 20:16, 17); and then their corpses were suspended on five trees till the evening.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • פִּתְח֖וּopen

    pitchuH6605 →

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • פִּ֣י[the] mouth of

    piH6310 →498 times

  • הַמְּעָרָ֑הthe cave

    hamearahH4631 →37 times

  • וְהוֹצִ֣יאוּand bring out

    vehotziuH3318 →1067 times

  • אֵלַ֗יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • חֲמֵ֛שֶׁת[the] five

    chameshetH2568 →343 times

  • הַמְּלָכִ֥יםthe kings

    hamelakhimH4428 →2525 times

  • הָאֵ֖לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַמְּעָרָֽה׃the cave

    hamearahH4631 →37 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

3 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

    1 Samuel 15:32

    Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

    it leads to

    • 1 Thessalonians 5:3

      While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

    • Jeremiah 48:44

      “Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the…

    • Revelation 18:7

      As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow…

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
Joshua: the study guide →Read Joshua 10 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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