Joshua 10:38

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.

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 qu...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Debir . Oracle: south of Hebron. Called Kirjath sepher. Book Town ( Joshua 15:15 . Judges 1:11 ; Judges 1:11 ), and Kirjath sannah. Precept Tow...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it: No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Debir ] also called Kirjath-Sepher, and falling, like Hebron, to Caleb. It lay in the hill-country of Judah, or in the Negeb ( Joshua 15:15-19 ), pe...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Debir is not identified.
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 peopl...
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 ord...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 po...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 fig...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it: Ver. 38. To Debir. ] Formerly called Kirjathsepher. Jdg 1:12
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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,...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Seven Kings Defeated and Slain. B. C. 1450....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 fa...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ 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 th...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 10:29 . Libnah] Another of the cities belonging to the Shephelah, or low country of Judah. It was besieged by Sennacherib...
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 . Gr...
The Biblical Illustrator

All these kings and their laud did Joshua take at one time, because the Lord . .. fought for Israel. Divine sovereignty I. God has an indisp...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Conquest of Southern Canaan
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Joshua returned, turned back, toward the southwest, and all Israel with him, to Debir, some ten miles from Hebron, and fought against it.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 12:13 ; Joshua 15:15 ; Joshua 15:49 ; Joshua 21:15 ; Judges 1:11-15
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 tho...

³⁸ And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:

Related Commentaries of Joshua 10:38

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 10:38