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Joshua 11:10

in Joshua 11

At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword, because Hazor was formerly the head of all these kingdoms.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.

KJV

And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.

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This verse in Joshua 11

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The king - In his royal city, to which he fled out of the battle. Head of these kingdoms - Not of all Canaan, but of all those who were confederate with him in this expedition.

This site's exposition

at that time turned back

on Joshua 11:10-11

Hazor is called the head of all those kingdoms, and the mound at the site is the largest in the country at roughly two hundred acres, with a Late Bronze destruction by fire reported in the excavations Yigael Yadin published in Hazor: The Rediscovery of a Great Citadel of the Bible. The date of that burn is argued among archaeologists and the argument is not settled here. A reader then meets a difficulty at Judges 4:2, where a Jabin reigns in Hazor after this chapter has burnt it, and the readings on offer are a city rebuilt on its own ruins and a dynastic name carried by whoever held the throne.

The words behind it

19 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.

  • וַיָּ֨שָׁבand he turned back

    vaiyashovH7725 →1056 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֜עַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • בָּעֵ֤תat the time

    baetH6256 →296 times

  • הַהִיא֙<the> that

    hahi'H1931 →1879 times

  • וַיִּלְכֹּ֣דand he captured

    vaiyilkodH3920 →121 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • חָצ֔וֹרHazor

    chatzorH2674 →18 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • מַלְכָּ֖הּking its

    malkahH4428 →2525 times

  • הִכָּ֣הhe struck

    hikahH5221 →499 times

  • בֶחָ֑רֶבwith the sword

    vecharevH2719 →413 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • חָצ֣וֹרHazor

    chatzorH2674 →18 times

  • לְפָנִ֔ים<to> before

    lefanimH6440 →2123 times

  • הִ֕יאit

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • רֹ֖אשׁ[was] [the] head of

    roshH7218 →599 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַמַּמְלָכ֥וֹתthe kingdoms

    hamamlakhotH4467 →

  • הָאֵֽלֶּה׃<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Joshua 11:1Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;4 worksJudges 4:2So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.3 works2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.2 works2 Samuel 10:19When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.2 works

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

    Judges 4:2

    So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.

    it leads to

    • Judges 4:16

      Then Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.

    • Judges 4:13

      he summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon.

    • Joshua 11:1

      Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;

    • 1 Samuel 12:9

      But they forgot the LORD their God, and He sold them into the hand of Sisera the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of…

    • Psalms 83:9

      Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,

  • Through

    Joshua 11:1

    Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;

    it leads to

    • Joshua 10:3–4

      Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

    • Judges 4:2

      So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.

    • Psalms 2:1–4

      Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Joshua: the study guide →Read Joshua 11 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.

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