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Joshua 11:19

in Joshua 11

No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in battle.

KJV

There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.

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This verse in Joshua 11

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is intimated that other cities might have made as good terms for themselves, without ragged clothes and clouted shoes, if they would have humbled themselves, but they never so much as desired conditions of peace. We here are told whence this unaccountable infatuation came: It was of the Lord to harden their hearts,

This site's exposition

There was not a city that

on Joshua 11:19-20

Deuteronomy 20:10 required terms of peace to be offered to a city before it was fought, and verse 19 says no city took them except Gibeon, which had obtained its treaty by deceit in chapter 9. Verse 20 then gives the reason in the vocabulary of the plagues, that it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, and this is the only place hardening appears in the book of Joshua. Gill reads a divine determination standing behind the whole action, and Clarke reads God withdrawing restraint from men whose guilt was already full, pointing back to Genesis 15:16 on the iniquity of the Amorites. Exodus carries both kinds of statement, with Pharaoh hardening his own heart at 8:15 before the same thing is said of God at 9:12.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

For many days did Yehoshua. This verse was said to criticize Yehoshua, who intended to delay the conquest of the land, in order to lengthen his days, for it is said, “And you will apportion it to them.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Joshua 11:18:1, via Sefaria, The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

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.

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • הָיְתָ֣הit was

    hayetahH1961 →3559 times

  • עִ֗ירa city

    ʾirH5892 →1090 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הִשְׁלִ֙ימָה֙it made peace

    hishlimahH7999 →116 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • בִּלְתִּ֥יexcept

    biltiH1115 →112 times

  • הַחִוִּ֖יthe Hivite[s]

    hachiviH2340 →25 times

  • יֹשְׁבֵ֣י[the] inhabitants of

    yosheveiH3427 →1079 times

  • גִבְע֑וֹןGibeon

    givonH1391 →38 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַכֹּ֖ל<the> everything

    hakolH3605 →5413 times

  • לָקְח֥וּthey took

    lakechuH3947 →966 times

  • בַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃in <the> battle

    vamilchamahH4421 →320 times

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

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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.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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