“ And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it: ”
Joshua returned - The words mark a change in the direction of the march. Joshua from Hebron turned to the southwest, and attacked Debir or Kirjath-sepher and its dependencies Joshua 15:15 .
Conquest of S. Canaan. This section is late and is from the hand of the Deuteronomist. Well-known passages in this and other books show it to be quite unhistorical. In 33 the king of Gezer ( Judges...
Debir . Oracle: south of Hebron. Called Kirjath sepher. Book Town ( Joshua 15:15 . Judges 1:11 ; Judges 1:11 ), and Kirjath sannah. Precept Town ( Joshua 15:49 );.
And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:
And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it: No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
Debir is not identified.
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...
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...
I bring all these into one point of view for the sake of shortness. They only serve to illustrate the astonishing victory of Joshua. But the grand point I wish to interest the Reader to attend to in...
And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir ,.... A city, according to Kimchi, which he passed by when he went to Hebron, and did not fight against it; but, when he had taken Hebron, retu...
And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it: Ver. 38. To Debir. ] Formerly called Kirjathsepher. Jdg 1:12
Joshua returned to Debir Joshua had not been there before, but having advanced as far south and west as he thought expedient, even as far as Gaza, which was in the western coast, ( Joshua 10:41 ,)...
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He is said to return thither, not as if he had been there before, but because having gone as far westward and southward as he thought fit, even as far as Gaza, Joshua 10:41 , he now returned towar...
‘ And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it. And he took it and its king, and all its cities, and they smote them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroye...
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All these kings and their laud did Joshua take at one time, because the Lord . .. fought for Israel. Divine sovereignty I. God has an indisputable right to dispense his favours to what perso...
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...
The Conquest of Southern Canaan
Joshua 12:13 ; Joshua 15:15 ; Joshua 15:49 ; Joshua 21:15 ; Judges 1:11-15
Joshua returned — He is said to return thither, not as if he had been there before, but because having gone as far westward and southward as he thought fit, even as far as Gaza, Joshua 10:41 , he...