And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel,.... The whole host, who either were killed or wounded, or put to flight: it was of the Lord that Israel was directed to make so quick a march, and…
Barnes' Notes
One portion of the defeated host fled north-westward toward Zidon; the other northeastward up the Ard el Huleh. Zidon, as the metropolis of various subject towns and territories, appears Jos 19:28 to…
Adam Clarke
Great Zidon - If this were the same with the Sidon of the ancients, it was illustrious long before the Trojan war; and both it and its inhabitants are frequently mentioned by Homer as excelling in…
We are here entering upon the story of another campaign that Joshua made, and it was a glorious one, no less illustrious than the former in the success of it, though in respect of miracles it was…
Cambridge Bible
and chased them The rout was complete, and the fugitives seem to have divided into three parts
(a) unto great Zidon One party took the road north-west over the mountains above the gorge of the…
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