ヨシュア記 10:1-23 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 10:10

Discomfited . The original meaning of the word is to disturb, put in motion. Hence, as here, to throw into confusion, put to rout. Going up to Beth-horon. Beth-horon, or the house of the hollow, consisted of two towns. The one is now called Belt Ur el Foka, or Upper Belt Ur, the other Belt Ur el Tachta, or Lower Beit Ur. To the former led a difficult pass from Gibeon, called the ascent מַעֲלֵה ) to Beth-horon. From the former to the latter ran a path so rocky and rugged that steps... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 10:11

Great stones from heaven. Calmet has taken great trouble to collect evidence for showers of actual stones from heaven upon the enemies of Israel. But the next sentence of the verse states that they were hailstones, אַבְנֵי בָרָד . And even if there were not sufficient evidence of the fall of hailstones large enough to do great destruction to man and beast, we might fall back upon the theory that this was a miraculous hailstorm, since the whole history teems with miraculous... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 10:12

Then , אָז . See Joshua 8:30 . The period is here more strictly defined by the addition of the words, "on the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel." Spake Joshua to the Lord. The preposition לְ (literally, "to ") used here, has a variety of meanings in Hebrew. It is employed in such a phrase as "a Psalm of David" (literally, "to David "), but the sense requires "by." So in Ps 3:9 (8 in our version); Isaiah 22:5 , etc. It has the sense "on... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 10:12-14

The sun and moon stayed. Whatever opinions we may entertain relative to the exact nature of the incident celebrated in the poem of the Book of Jasher, there are certain general principles and religious truths which that poem brings distinctly before us. I. GOD IS ACTIVELY CONCERNED WITH THE EVENTS OF HUMAN HISTORY . Divine powers aided Joshua in resisting the onslaught of the Canaanites. God is present, when He is not clearly so recognised, in all crises of life. ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 10:13

The moon stayed. The word עמד , which does mean to stand still, is used here. See also Habakkuk 3:11 . But if we are to apply it to the moon and not to the light of the moon, where would be the use of the moon's standing still in the valley of Ajalon, when she would be low down in the sky westward, and incapable of rendering Joshua any help? If we regard the light of the moon as meant, there is no phrase more common in poetry and poetic prose than to speak of moonbeams "resting"... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 10:14

There was no day like that before it or after it. Cf. for this expression 2 Kings 18:5 ; 2 Kings 23:22 , 2 Kings 23:25 . read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 10:14

A day of wonders. The Canaanite kings were slow in gathering their forces together to repel the advance of Joshua, but they were ready enough to come down in vengeance upon the Gibeonites for having made peace with him. The men of Gibeon found the advantage of having a strong and generous protector, one who would be true to his pledges, even though they had been extorted from him by fraud. Joshua responds at once to the cry that comes to him from the beleaguered city, and God makes its... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 10:15

And Joshua returned. The historian had at first intended to complete his narrative of these transactions here. But he seems to have altered his intention, and added the execution of the five kings and the subjugation of the remaining cities of southern Palestine which had adhered to the league, as well as their immediate neighbours. He then (verse 43) repeats what he had subjoined here. It is not contended (see Introduction) that the Book of Joshua could not have been compiled from accounts... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 10:16

In a cave. "In the cave" according to the Masoretic pointing. So the LXX ; τὸ σπήλαιον . Dr. Maclear remarks on the number of caves in Palestine (see Genesis 19:30 ; 20:47 ), as well as the well-known caves of Adullam and Engedi ( 1 Samuel 22:1 , 1 Samuel 24:3 ), and the cave in which a hundred prophets were concealed by Obadiah ( 1 Kings 18:4 ). Also see note on Joshua 2:22 . But Lieut. Conder believes that in this particular neighbourhood there were few caves. See... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 10:19

And stay ye not. The original is stronger, and as for you, stand not still. The active general was not to be diverted from his purpose of annihilating the enemy by the important news that the heads of the confederacy were in his hands. He takes immediate measures to secure their persons, but for the present throws his whole strength, as well as that of his army, into the task of following up the advantage he has gained . And smite the hindmost of them. Literally, "and tail them," a... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 10:14

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 10:19

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