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Joshua 11:22

in Joshua 11

No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.

KJV

There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.

This verse in Joshua 11

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

In Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod - The whole race of the Anakims was extirpated in this war, except those who had taken refuge in the above cities, which belonged to the Philistines; and in which some of the descendants of Anak were found even in the days of David.

This site's exposition

Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim

on Joshua 11:21-22

The Anakim are the people the spies saw at Hebron in Numbers 13:22, whose report at 13:33 turned the nation back for thirty-eight years. Verse 22 leaves survivors “only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod”, Philistine cities, and the champion of 1 Samuel 17:4 is Goliath of Gath.

This site's exposition

only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive

The survivors in the Philistine cities matter for chapter 14. Albert Barnes, commenting on Joshua 14:12, reasons that the Anakim who fled to Philistia came back to Hebron while Israel fought in the north. That is why Caleb still has sons of Anak to drive out at Joshua 15:14.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, God sometimes reserves the sharpest trials of his people by affliction and temptation for the latter end of their days. Therefore let not him that girds on the harness boast as he that puts it off. Death, that tremendous son of Anak, is the last enemy that is to be encountered; but it is to be destroyed, 1 Cor. xv.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Gaza, Gath, Ashdod - See the Jos 13:3 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.

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • נוֹתַ֣רit was left

    notarH3498 →106 times

  • עֲנָקִ֔יםAnakites

    ʾanakimH6062 →9 times

  • בְּאֶ֖רֶץin [the] land of

    beeretzH776 →2504 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • רַ֗קonly

    rakH7535 →109 times

  • בְּעַזָּ֛הin Gaza

    beazahH5804 →21 times

  • בְּגַ֥תin Gath

    begatH1661 →

  • וּבְאַשְׁדּ֖וֹדand in Ashdod

    uveashdodH795 →17 times

  • נִשְׁאָֽרוּ׃they remained

    nisharuH7604 →133 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

    1 Chronicles 18:1

    Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Gath and its villages from the hand of the Philistines.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 8:1–18

      Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from the hand of the Philistines.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 5:1

    After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 7:12

      Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”

    • 1 Samuel 4:1

      Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.

    • Joshua 13:3

      All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites, from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of…

  • Through

    1 Samuel 17:4

    Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 27:4

      And when Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Chronicles 20:4–8

      Some time later, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.

    • 1 Samuel 17:23

      And as he was speaking with them, suddenly the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, came forward from the Philistines and shouted his usual words, which David also heard.

    • 2 Samuel 21:16–22

      Then Ishbi-benob, a descendant of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels and who was bearing a new sword, resolved to kill David.

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.