Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 11:6
Hough their horses, i.e. cut their hamstrings, that they may be unfit for war. For God forbade them to have or keep many horses, Deuteronomy 17:16, now especially, that they might not trust to their horses, as men are apt to do, nor distrust God for want of so necessary a help in battle; nor ascribe the conquest of the land to their own strength, but wholly to God, by whose power alone a company of raw and unexperienced footmen were able to subdue so potent a people, which besides their great... read more
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 11:1-23
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 king was slain, and his city burnt. In Judges 4, a king of the same name and the same city appears, who “ for twenty years mightily oppressed the children of Israel.” Joshua’ s victory here seems to be inconsistent with the account given of Jabin in Judges 4. The original story of Barak’ s campaign... read more