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Joshua 10:34

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So Joshua moved on from Lachish to Eglon, and all Israel with him. They laid siege to it and fought against it.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, unto Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it;

KJV

And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:

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Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon,.... Which, according to Bunting (f), was eight miles from Lachish, and twelve from Jerusalem southward, of which see Jos 10:5, and all Israel with him, and they encamped against it, and fought against it; it not surrendering at once, but attempted to hold out a siege. (f) Ut supra. (Travels of the Patriarchs, &c. p. 96.)

This site's exposition

So Joshua moved on from Lachish to Eglon

on Joshua 10:34-35

Eglon falls in a day, and its king had already died at Makkedah. The formula shifts one word each time, “just as he had done to Lachish”. Keil and Delitzsch read the sequence as one southern campaign set down in the manner of a military report.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

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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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Eglon - It is likely that this town was not any great distance from Lachish. See on Jos 10:3 (note).

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וַיַּעֲבֹ֣רand he passed on

    vaiyaavorH5674 →556 times

  • יְ֠הוֹשֻׁעַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֥לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • עִמּ֛וֹwith him

    imoH5973 →1050 times

  • מִלָּכִ֖ישׁfrom Lachish

    milakhishH3923 →24 times

  • עֶגְלֹ֑נָהEglon towards

    ʾeglonahH5700 →13 times

  • וַיַּחֲנ֣וּand they encamped

    vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times

  • עָלֶ֔יהָon it

    ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times

  • וַיִּֽלָּחֲמ֖וּand they engaged in battle

    vaiyilachamuH3898 →177 times

  • עָלֶֽיהָ׃on it

    ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

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 15:39

    Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,

    it leads to

    • Joshua 10:3

      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,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Kings 22:1

      Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.

    • Joshua 10:31–32

      And Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Libnah to Lachish. They laid siege to it and fought against it.

  • Through

    Joshua 12:12

    the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

    it leads to

    • Joshua 10:33

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

  • Through

    Joshua 10:3

    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,

    it leads to

    • Micah 1:13

      Harness your chariot horses, O dweller of Lachish. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

    • 2 Chronicles 11:9

      Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

    • Joshua 15:54

      Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior—nine cities, along with their villages.

    • Joshua 14:15

      (Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.

Where this verse is studied

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