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Joshua 10:28

in Joshua 10

On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and put it to the sword, along with its king. He devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof: he utterly destroyed them and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done unto the king of Jericho.

KJV

And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.

This verse in Joshua 10

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

That day Joshua took Makkedah - It is very possible that Makkedah was taken on the evening of the same day in which the miraculous solstice took place; but as to the other cities mentioned in this chapter, they certainly were subdued some days after, as it is not possible that an army, exhausted as this must have been with a whole night’s march, and two days’ hard fighting, could have proceeded farther than Makkedah that night; the other cities were successively taken in the following days.

This site's exposition

that day Joshua took Makkedah

on Joshua 10:28-30

From here the chapter runs as a formula, town after town, with the refrain as he did unto the king of Jericho holding the list together. Makkedah falls the same day the kings are executed and Libnah next, and Libnah surfaces again at 2 Kings 8:22 as a town that revolted from Judah in the reign of Jehoram. The repetition is the writer's method rather than a shortage of material, since Joshua 11:18 says plainly that Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

And that day - On which the sun stood still. Nor is it strange that so much work was done, and places so far distant taken in one day, when the day was so long, and the Canaanites struck with such a terror.

The words behind it

28 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.

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • מַקֵּדָה֩Makkedah

    makedahH47199 times

  • לָכַ֨דhe captured

    lakhadH3920121 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֜עַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091218 times

  • בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day

    baiyomH31172304 times

  • הַה֗וּא<the> that

    hahu'H19311879 times

  • וַיַּכֶּ֣הָand he struck it

    vaiyakehaH5221499 times

  • לְפִי־to [the] mouth of

    lefi-H6310498 times

  • חֶרֶב֮[the] sword

    cherevH2719413 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • מַלְכָּהּ֒king its

    malkahH44282525 times

  • הֶחֱרִ֣םhe totally destroyed

    hecherimH276352 times

  • אוֹתָ֗ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH85310935 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H36055413 times

  • הַנֶּ֙פֶשׁ֙<the> person

    hanefeshH5315754 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • בָּ֔הּ[was] in <the> it

    bah

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H38085168 times

  • הִשְׁאִ֖ירhe left

    hishirH7604133 times

  • שָׂרִ֑ידa survivor

    saridH830028 times

  • וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙and he did

    vaiyaasH62132628 times

  • לְמֶ֣לֶךְto [the] king of

    lemelekhH44282525 times

  • מַקֵּדָ֔הMakkedah

    makedahH47199 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥רjust as

    kaasherH8345497 times

  • עָשָׂ֖הhe had done

    ʾasahH62132628 times

  • לְמֶ֥לֶךְto [the] king of

    lemelekhH44282525 times

  • יְרִיחֽוֹ׃Jericho

    yerichoH340557 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

    Deuteronomy 7:16

    You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 23:33

      They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

    • Judges 8:27

      From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

    • Deuteronomy 13:8

      you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.

    • Deuteronomy 19:21

      You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

    • Deuteronomy 19:13

      You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.

  • Through

    Joshua 6:21

    At the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 137:8–9

      O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

    • Jeremiah 48:18

      Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.

    • Deuteronomy 20:16–17

      However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

About Joshua

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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.