Iſrael, who ſmore them, and chaſed them: unto Þ great f Or, Zi- Z;idon 0, and unto | * Miſrephoth-maim p, and unto the valley of Miſpeh q eaſtward, and they ſmote them,
bah. : OF TA ſal; until they lefe them none remaining.
pits. o A great and famous City in the North-weſt part of Canaan,and * Heb. upon the Sea, þ A place not far from Ziaon, ſuppoſed to be ſo
burnings of called from the Salr or Glaſs which they made there. q Under | waters, Mount Hermon, as appears by comparing this with v. 3. and 17. where it ſeems to þe called 7he walley of Lebanon. This lay on the Eaſt, as Sihon did on the Weſt, and ſo it ſeems they fled ſeveral ways, and the Iſraelires alſo divided themſelves into two Bodirs, one
purſuing Eaſt, and the other Weſt.
And Joſhua did unto them as ; him: he houghed their horſes, and burnt rheir chari- ots with fire,
10 'T And Joſhua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and ſmote the king thereof r with the ſword : for Hazor before time was the head of all thoſe kingdoms /. |
r Either in the former Battel,chough it be mentioned here: Or rather, in his Royal City, ro which he- fled out of the Battel. Not of all Canaan, bur of all thoſe who were confederate with him
in this Expedition. | iz And they ſmote all the ſouls that were therein wich the edge of the ſword, utterly deſtroying hens; there was not * any t left. to breathe,and-he burnt Ha- zor with fire. ? (1. e.) No Humane Perſon.
12 Andallthe cities of thoſe. kings, and all the kings of them did Jeſhua take, and ſmote them with the edge | of the {word, and he utterly deſtroyed them, * as Moles | the ſervant of the LORD commanded.
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ſtrength. », Iſrael burned' none of them, fave. Hazor only x, that did Joſhua burn y.
s Heb. with. (for ſo this Prepohition-is-oft uſed; as Exod, 35.. 12. Levi 2. 2. Exek. 16. 37; &c.) their. Fence or Fences, Walls or Buiwarks; 5, e,, which-were- not utterly ruined togerher with-their Walls 1n the taking, of them. Which-though- taken by: the {jraelttes,was- not ſo much deſtroyed as other. places-were: y Becauſe this Ciry- began the War, and-being; the chief and- royal City,, might' renew'the
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16 $0 Joſhua took all that land z, the hill a, and all = the ſouth countrey 6, and all the land of Goſhen «c, and the ale 4, and the plain e, and the mountain of Iſrael f, and the vale of the ſame g :
z Of Canaan, whoſe parts here follow. a Or, the Mountain, i. e. the Mountainous Country, to wit, of Judea, as may ſeem, 1. Be- cauſe in the following enumeration te begins in the Sourh parts, where there was an eminent Mountain, N«mb. 1 3- 17. 2 Becauſe a conſiderable part of Judeas was called the Hilly, or the mountainous Country, Luke 1. 39, 65+ . Which is nor likely ro be omitred in this particular deſcription of the Land; the rather becauſe Hcbron, one of the places taken by Joſhua, chap. 19. 36, 37. was inthe Mountain of Judah, Joſ. 20, 7, 3. Becauſe this 1s here diſtinguiſhed from the Mountain of Iſrael, and therefore moſt likely to be the Mountain of Ju- dah, eſpecially if you compare this with v. 21. where having men« tioned the Mountain in general, from which Joſhua cut off the Ana- kims, he comes to particularize, and names only two, ll the Moun- tain of Judah, and all the Mountain of Iſrael. & (:.e.) Not only the Mountainous pact, bur all the Countrey of Judes, which lay in the Southern part of Canaan, and oft comes under the name of the Seurh, as Numb, 13.22, 29. and 21. 1, Jo. 10. 40. and 18. s, &c. c Of which ſee Joſ. 10. 41. d The low Countries, e The Fields or Champion Grounds. f Either 1. Some one particular and eminent Mountain, poſſibly the Hill of Samaris, mentioned r Kings 16. 24. Or rather 2. The Mountains or Mountainous Countrey of Jſ#ae!. Sec the ſecond nore on this verſe. g (:..e) Of iſrael.
I7 Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to .
Seir þ, unto Baal-Gad 3, in the valley of Lebanon un- , , |
der mount Hermon # And all their kings he took, and \yunrary {more chem, and ſlew them. =
h (i.e.) To the Countrey of Seir or Edom; to wit,that part of it; ll which was Soath from Judez, not that which was Eaſtward from ir, Ml as appears from hence, that here, as alſo Joſ: 12. 7. is mention of the two extream bounds of the Land conquered by Joſhua; whereof the other which follows being inthe North, this muſt needs be in the South of the Land. # A part of Monnt Lebanon.
118 Joſbua made war @ long time & with all thoſe Kings. |
k For divers years together, as is evident by the following Hi- ſtory, and by comparirg Det. 2. 14. with Joſ. 14. 7, &c. And this is here expreſſed, left it ſhould be thought that as all rheſe Wars are here recorded in a ſhort Narration, fo they were diſpatched in a ſhort time. And God would have the Land to be conquered gras du.Illy, for many weighty Reaſons ; 1. Leſt the ſudden extirpaiion of thoſe Nations ſhould have made a great part of the Land delſerr, and thereby have encreaſed the numbers of wild Beaſts, Deut. 7. 22, 2+ Leſt being done ſuddenly and cafily, it ſhould ſoon be forgotten and deſpiſed, as the nature of man is apt to do in thoſe caſes. 3- That by long exerciſe the J/raelites might grow skilful in the Art of War, which was very uſeful and needful for them in that Land. 4. For the tryal and exerciſe of their Patience and Courage, and Truſt in God. 5. To oblige them tothe greater Care to pleaſe and obey God, whom they yet needced for their Help againſt their enemies.
i9 There was not a city that made peace with the — children of Iſrael, fave * the Hivites the inhabirancs of * Clup-$ Gibeon ; all ether } they took in battel. 3
I To wit, all that were taken by Joſhus, were taken by the ſword, and therefore it is no wonder that the War was long, when the enemy was ſo obſtinate.
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