Joshua 10:38

And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Joshua	יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַ ye.ho.Shu.a'	H3091	Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua) · proper noun, a man's name
returned	וַיָּ֧שָׁב vai.Ya.shov	H7725	to turn back (hence · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
Debir	דְּבִ֑רָה de.Vi.rah	H1688	Debir · proper noun, a man's name + directional suffix
fought	וַיִּלָּ֖חֶם vai.yi.La.chem	H3898	to feed on · conjunction + verb, niphal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Joshua 15:15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher.
Joshua 12:13 The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
Joshua 15:49 And Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah, which is Debir,
Joshua 21:15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
Judges 1:11-15 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joshua 10:28–end

We are here informed how Joshua improved the late glorious victory he had obtained and the advantages he had gained by it, and to do this well is a general's praise. I. Here is a particular account of the several cities which he immediately made himself master of. 1. The cities of three of the kings whom he had conquered in the field he went and took possession of, Lachish (Jos 10:31, Jos 10:32), Eglon (Jos 10:34, Jos 10:35), and Hebron, Jos 10:36, Jos 10:37. The other two, Jerusalem and Jarmuth, were not taken at this time; perhaps his forces were either so much fatigued with what they had done or so well content with what they had got that they had no mind to attack those places, and so th…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 10:28

SEVEN MORE KINGS CONQUERED. (Jos 10:28-42) 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. And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal." Next: Joshua Chapter 11

Adam Clarke on Joshua 10:36

Hebron - and the king thereof - See the note on Jos 10:3. From Jos 10:23 we learn that the king of Hebron was one of those five whom Joshua slew and hanged on five trees at Makkedah. How then can it be said that he slew the king of Hebron when he took the city, which was some days after the transactions at Makkedah? Either this slaying of the king of Hebron must refer to what had already been done, or the Hebronites, finding that their king fell in battle, had set up another in his place; which was the king Joshua slew, after he had taken the city and its dependencies, as is related Jos 10:37. It appears that the city of Hebron had fallen back into the hands of the Canaanites, for it was aga…

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John Gill

Dictionary and topics

Adoni-zedec — Lord of justice or righteousness, was king in Jerusalem at the time when the Israelites invaded Palestine (Josh. 10:1, 3). He formed a confederacy with the other Canaanitish kings against the…
Kirjath-sannah — City of the sannah; i.e., of the palm(?), Josh. 15:49; the same as Kirjath-sepher (15:16; Judg. 1:11) and Debir (q.v.), a Canaanitish royal city included in Judah (Josh. 10:38; 15:49), and probably…
Makkedah — Herdsman’s place, one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:16), near which was a cave where the five kings who had confederated against Israel sought refuge (10:10-29). They were put to…
Writing — The art of writing must have been known in the time of the early Pharaohs. Moses is commanded “to write for a memorial in a book” (Ex. 17:14) a record of the attack of Amalek. Frequent mention is…
Captive · .Putting to — .Putting to
Hebron · against Joshua — against Joshua
Massacre · .Of the cities of the seven kings — .Of the cities of the seven kings
Sieges · Mentioned in scripture: Debir — Mentioned in scripture: Debir
War · Of extermination — Of extermination

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Joshua 10:38

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joshua 10:28–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 10:28

Adam Clarke on Joshua 10:36

John Gill

Dictionary and topics

Joshua 10:38

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joshua 10:28–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 10:28

Adam Clarke on Joshua 10:36

John Gill

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Joshua 10:29–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Joshua 10:28-39

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Joshua 10:38-39

Rashi on Joshua 10:21