Joshua 11:22
in Joshua 11No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive.
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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.
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This verse in Joshua 11
Commentary
6 notes on this verseIn 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,....
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
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Gaza, Gath, Ashdod - See the Jos 13:3 note.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| נוֹתַ֣ר | notar | it was left | H3498 → | 106 times |
| עֲנָקִ֔ים | ʾanakim | Anakites | H6062 → | 9 times |
| בְּאֶ֖רֶץ | beeretz | in [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| רַ֗ק | rak | only | H7535 → | 109 times |
| בְּעַזָּ֛ה | beazah | in Gaza | H5804 → | 21 times |
| בְּגַ֥ת | begat | in Gath | H1661 → | |
| וּבְאַשְׁדּ֖וֹד | uveashdod | and in Ashdod | H795 → | 17 times |
| נִשְׁאָֽרוּ׃ | nisharu | they remained | H7604 → | 133 times |
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 stopsEach 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 18:1Some 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.
- 2 Samuel 8:1–18
Through
1 Samuel 5:1After 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…
- 1 Samuel 7:12
Through
1 Samuel 17:4Then 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.
- 1 Samuel 27:4
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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.
