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Joshua 10:33

in Joshua 10

At that time Horam king of Gezer went to help Lachish, but Joshua struck him down along with his people, leaving no survivors.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

KJV

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

This verse in Joshua 10

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
Gezer lies on the southern border of the tribe of Ephraim Jos 16:3. It was considerably to the northward of Joshua’s present line of operations, and does not appear to have been captured at this time. He contented himself for the present with repulsing the attack made upon him, killed Horam (compare Jos 12:12), inflicting a severe defeat upon his people, and then continued to pursue his conquests over the confederated kings and their allies in south Canaan.

This site's exposition

Joshua passed from Libnah

on Joshua 10:31-33

Lachish is the only city in the run that takes two days, and it is the one the account slows for. Its mound has been excavated more thoroughly than almost any site in the country, and its burn layers are the ground of the argument over when the conquest happened, which is not settled. Horam king of Gezer comes out to relieve it and loses his army, and his city is never taken: Joshua 16:10 and Judges 1:29 both record that Gezer stayed Canaanite, and 1 Kings 9:16 has Pharaoh burning it and giving it to Solomon's wife.

The words behind it

17 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.

  • אָ֣זthen

    ʾazH227141 times

  • עָלָ֗הhe came up

    ʾalahH5927890 times

  • הֹרָם֙Horam

    horamH2036

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH44282525 times

  • גֶּ֔זֶרGezer

    gezerH150715 times

  • לַעְזֹ֖רto help

    la'zorH582681 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • לָכִ֑ישׁLachish

    lakhishH392324 times

  • וַיַּכֵּ֤הוּand he attacked him

    vaiyakehuH5221499 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙Joshua

    yehoshua'H3091218 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • עַמּ֔וֹpeople his

    amoH59711873 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • בִּלְתִּ֥יnot

    biltiH1115112 times

  • הִשְׁאִֽיר־he had left

    hishir-H7604133 times

  • ל֖וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • שָׂרִֽיד׃a survivor

    saridH830028 times

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

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

    Joshua 16:10

    But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 9:16

      Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • Judges 1:29

      Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.

    • Deuteronomy 7:1–2

      When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations…

    • Joshua 17:13

      However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they put the Canaanites to forced labor; but they failed to drive them out completely.

    • Numbers 33:52–55

      you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

  • Through

    Judges 1:29

    Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 16:10

      But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 6:67

    They were given Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,

    it leads to

    • Joshua 21:21

      From the tribe of Ephraim they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,

  • Through

    Joshua 16:3

    Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 8:5

      He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

About Joshua

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.