Joshua 10:37

And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword ,

and the king thereof ,.... For though the king of Hebron was one of the kings that were taken in the cave of Makkedah, and hanged; yet before Joshua came up to it, they had set up another king over them:

and all the cities thereof ; for Hebron was a metropolitan city, and had other cities dependent on it, and subject to it:

and all the souls that were therein ; both in Hebron, and in the cities subject to it:

he left none remaining ; in any of them:

according to all that he had done to Eglon ; the last place he came from:

but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein ; but it seems that afterwards some that made their escape before the taking of the city, and other Canaanites driven out of their habitations, repeopled it; so that after Joshua's death it was recovered again by the tribe of Judah, Judges 1:10 ; unless there is given in that place a more particular account of the taking of this city, with others at this time; but the former seems most likely.