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Joshua 10:32

in Joshua 10

And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, and Joshua captured it on the second day. He put all the people to the sword, just as he had done to Libnah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and Jehovah delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel; and he took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

KJV

And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

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This verse in Joshua 10

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which he took on the second day,.... Either the second day from the slaughter of the kings, or rather the second day of the encampment or siege; so Kimchi: and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah; no mention is made of its king, because he was one of the five kings that had been hanged up; so that at the taking of this city there was no king.

This site's exposition

moved on from Libnah to Lachish

on Joshua 10:31-33

Lachish alone in the run takes two days, and the account slows for it. Its mound is among the most excavated in the land, and its burn layers are part of the unsettled argument over the conquest’s date. Horam king of Gezer comes to relieve it and loses his army.

This site's exposition

on the second day

John Gill, following Kimchi, counts the second day from the start of the siege. He also explains why no king of Lachish is named here. Its king, Japhia, was one of the five already hanged at Makkedah, so the city fell with no king to defend it.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Lachish - It appears that this was anciently a very strong place; notwithstanding the people were panic-struck, and the Israelites flushed with success, yet Joshua could not reduce it till the second day, and the king of Assyria afterwards was obliged to raise the siege. See above, and see the note on Jos 10:3.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

that day Joshua took Makkedah--In this and the following verses is described the rapid succession of victory and extermination which swept the whole of southern Palestine into the hands of Israel. "All these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.

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The words behind it

21 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.

  • וַיִּתֵּן֩and he gave

    vaiyitenH5414 →2011 times

  • יְהוָ֨הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • לָכִ֜ישׁLachish

    lakhishH3923 →24 times

  • בְּיַ֣דin [the] hand of

    beyadH3027 →1618 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וַֽיִּלְכְּדָהּ֙and he captured it

    vaiyilkedahH3920 →121 times

  • בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַשֵּׁנִ֔י<the> second

    hasheniH8145 →156 times

  • וַיַּכֶּ֣הָand he struck it

    vaiyakehaH5221 →499 times

  • לְפִי־to [the] mouth of

    lefi-H6310 →498 times

  • חֶ֔רֶב[the] sword

    cherevH2719 →413 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַנֶּ֖פֶשׁ<the> person

    hanefeshH5315 →754 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • בָּ֑הּ[was] in <the> it

    bah

  • כְּכֹ֥לaccording to all

    kekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • עָשָׂ֖הhe had done

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • לְלִבְנָֽה׃ פto Libnah

    lelivnahH3841 →18 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.

Deuteronomy 7:2and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.2 worksExodus 17:13So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his army with the sword.2 worksJoshua 10:28On 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.2 worksJoshua 11:12Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and put them to the sword. He devoted them to destruction, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.2 works

Where this verse is studied

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); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.

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