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Gill's Exposition
The king of Makkedah, one,.... In a cave near to which five kings hid themselves, and were taken out and hanged, and the city afterwards was taken by Joshua, Jos 10:16; which fell to the lot of the…
The names of the kings are given in the order of their actual encounter with Joshua. Those enumerated in Jos 12:10-18 either belonged to the league of the southern Canaanites (Jos 10:1 ff), the power…
We have here a breviate of Joshua's conquests.
I. The limits of the country he conquered. It lay between Jordan on the east and the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and extended from Baal-gad near…
Cambridge Bible
Makkedah See Jos 10:10; Jos 10:16-17; Jos 10:21.
Beth-el Earlier, Luz, famous for (i) Jacob's dream (Gen 28:11-19); (ii) the worship of the calves in Jeroboam's reign (1Ki 12:28-33), hence called…
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