Verse 39
And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof ,.... For this also was a royal city, and had others dependent on it; and therefore must lie further from Hebron than before suggested; and indeed Burchard F11 Apud Masium in loc. says it was five or six miles from it, and another writer F12 Fuller's Pisgah Sight of Palestine, B. 2. c. 13. p. 276. says ten miles:
and they smote them with the edge of the sword ; the inhabitants of Debir, and the other cities adjacent to it:
and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein, he left none remaining ; and yet it seems this city recovered again, and was reinhabited, and after the death of Joshua was taken by Othniel, Judges 1:11 ; unless, as before observed, with respect to Hebron, there is there a more particular account of the taking of it at this time:
as he had done to Hebron, so did he to Debir, and to the king thereof ,
as he had done also to Libnah and her king ; that is, slew them.
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