Joshua 10:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah. ”

• Joshua 10:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Defeat and Death of the Five Kings. Here we have the account of the famous battle of Bethhoron. Five kings band themselves together against Gibeon; the Gibeonites send for help to Joshua, who comes...

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• Joshua 10:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.

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• Joshua 10:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Joshua 10:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Conquest of Southern Canaan This chapter narrates the successful campaign against the five confederate chiefs of the S., who are roused by the fall of Jericho and Ai and the alliance with Gibe...

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• Joshua 10:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XIX. THE BATTLE OF BETHHORON. Joshua 10:1-43 . OUT of the larger confederacy of the whole Canaanite chiefs against Joshua and his people recorded in the beginning of chap 9, a smaller n...

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• Joshua 10:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  40-43, Joshua's Victories over Israel's Foes Joshua 10:15-27 The cave of Makkedah was a perpetual reminder of this wonderful victory which God gave His people. The details as to the placing of...

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• Joshua 10:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This action of the Gibeonites in securing their own safety aroused the anger of the confederate kings and they proceeded to act against Gibeon in order to punish it. In their peril the men of Gibeon...

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• Joshua 10:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Some conceive that the phrase, none moved his tongue against Israel, was meant to say, that none of Israel was missing at the end of the battle; which seems more probable, and more important to recor...

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• Joshua 10:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And it was told Joshua ,.... Either by some of his own people, or by some of the inhabitants of the land in his interest, who had observed it: saying, the five kings are found hid in a cave at Mak...

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• Joshua 10:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah. Ver. 17. In a cave at Makkedah. ] In the confines and country adjacent, and belonging to this city.

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• Joshua 10:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ISRAEL DEFEATS FIVE KINGS (vs.1-10) The news of Gibeon's treaty with Israel greatly alarmed other nations in the land, for Gibeon was considered prominent and important, so that the king of Jerus...

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• Joshua 10:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Five Kings Slain. B. C. 1450.       15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unt...

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• Joshua 10:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Joshua 10:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ And it was told Joshua saying, “The five kings are found hidden in the cave at Makkedah.” Capturing the kings would be looked on by the captors as a real coup. They may even have felt that now...

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• Joshua 10:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 10:21 . None moved his tongue] A proverbial phrase, intimating that even the most offensive and insolent should be swed into absolute silence (cf. Exodus 11:7 ; also Jdt....

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• Joshua 10:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Joshua 10:1 . Adonizedek, lord of righteousness. Zedek was common in the names of the kings of Jerusalem, as Melchizedek. Joshua 10:11 . Great stones hail stones, as in many versions. So i...

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• Joshua 10:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Bring out those five kings. The prostrate kings The kings of the Canaanites fled and hid themselves, but the Divine vengeance followed them; and after the rout of their hosts was completed they...

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• Joshua 10:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE BATTLE OF BETH - HORON , AND THE SUBJUGATION OF SOUTHERN PALESTINE .— Joshua 10:1 Adoni-zedec (cf. Melchizedek in Genesis 14:18 ). The name given to t...

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• Joshua 10:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Five Kings put to Death

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• Joshua 10:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Joshua 10:17

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• Joshua 10:17 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Kings Gather Against God Joshua 10:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Is the world approaching another world war? Is that war leading toward the final great war of wars? These and similar questions a...

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