Joshua 11:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire. ”

• Joshua 11:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Joshua 11. Defeat of Jabin and his Coalition. Jabin, king of Hazor, gathers a vast army of Canaanites at the Waters of Merom (locality uncertain, p. 32). The coalition was utterly defeated, the kin...

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• Joshua 11:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  as-according as.

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• Joshua 11:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire. He houghed their horses - The Hebrew word עקר akar, which we render to hough or hamstring,...

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• Joshua 11:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 9. And Joshua—houghed their horses, &c.— That is, he hamstrung, or disabled them by cutting the sinews of the ham: the word is derived from the Saxon [A.S.],* the hough, or lower par...

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• Joshua 11:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire. Joshua did ... as the Lord ( Joshua 11:6 ) bade him. Houghing the horses is done b...

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• Joshua 11:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Campaign in the North Here there is no trace, as in the former case, of miraculous interposition. Joshua's generalship, courage, swiftness and loyalty are the prominent factors in the achievem...

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• Joshua 11:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He houghed their horses. — In what particular way this was done we are not informed; we cannot, therefore, be certain whether it was done so as to destroy the lives of the horses, or merely to make...

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• Joshua 11:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XX. THE BATTLE OF MEROM. Joshua Chs. 11, 12. THERE is some appearance of confusion in the terms in which the great confederacy of native princes against Israel is brought in. In the begi...

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• Joshua 11:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Joshua's Obedience to the Lord's Commands Joshua 11:1-15 The scene is removed to the waters of Merom, near the sources of the Jordan. Hazor was the capital of the region; Jabin, like Pharaoh, w...

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• Joshua 11:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  A new confederacy had now to be faced and fought. Conscious of their peril, the northern kings now joined in an attempt to break the power of those conquering hosts. Turning north, Joshua led an atta...

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• Joshua 11:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  If we read these wars with a spiritual eye, (and unless we do this, the mere historical relation will only leave us where it found us) we shall discover much instruction couched under those commands...

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• Joshua 11:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Joshua did unto them as the Lord bade him ,.... Namely, in the following instances: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire ; not consulting his own worldly interest or tha...

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• Joshua 11:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire. Ver. 9. See Joshua 11:6 .

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• Joshua 11:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  CONQUEST OF NORTHERN ENEMIES (vs.1-15) Israel's returning for the time being to Gilgal gave time for the nations in the north to mobilize. In this God's wisdom is evident, for He brought these na...

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• Joshua 11:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Confederacy Against Israel. B. C. 1450.       1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor...

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• Joshua 11:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Joshua 11:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ And Joshua did to them as YHWH commanded him, he houghed their horses and burned their chariots with fire.' Joshua did not question YHWH's command. He obeyed. It must have been tempting to keep...

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• Joshua 11:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE OVERTHROW OF THE CITIES OF THE NORTH, AND GENERAL RETROSPECT CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 11:1 . Hazor] In Joshua 11:11 , Hazor is described as “the head” of all the kingdoms named in Joshua...

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• Joshua 11:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Joshua 11:1 . Hazor, then the metropolis of a powerful kingdom, Jeremiah 49:28 , is situate on Lake Merom, forty miles north of the sea of Galilee. Jabin with all the allies, 300,000 infantry,...

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• Joshua 11:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  When Jabin king of Hazor had heard. Take heed how ye hear I. Healing and not hearing. The tidings of the overthrow of Sihon and Og, and the fall of Jericho, seem to have made almost no impressi...

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• Joshua 11:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR .— Joshua 11:1 And it came to pass. The political constitution of Palestine was, humanly speaking, the cause of its overthrow. The division...

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• Joshua 11:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Second Alliance of Heathen Kings and their Defeat

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• Joshua 11:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 39:10 ; Ezekiel 39:9 ; Joshua 11:6

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• Joshua 11:9 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Wages of Sin is Death Joshua 11:1-23 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have heard of old that "to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." This is true. The outstanding fea...

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