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Joshua 11:6

JOSHUA—NOTE ON Joshua 11:6 In keeping with the prohibition against placing confidence in military strength (see Deuteronomy 17:16), Joshua is told to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots. Hamstringing would have involved cutting the horses’ equivalent of the Achilles tendon, which would make the animal unfit for military use (see also 2 Samuel 8:4).

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See also Joshua 11:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joshua 11:6. _BE NOT AFRAID - OF THEM_] To meet such a formidable host so well equipped, in their own country, furnished with all that was necessary to supply a numerous army, required more tha...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HOUGH THEIR HORSES - i. e. cut the sinews of the hinder hoofs. This sinew once severed cannot be healed, and the horses would thus be irreparably lamed. This is the first appearance of horses in the w...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    FURTHER CONQUESTS CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Jabin and his confederacy (Joshua 11:1)_ 2. The divine encouragement (Joshua 11:6) 3. The victory (Joshua 11:7) 4. The obedience of Joshua ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOSHUA 11. DEFEAT OF JABIN AND HIS COALITION. Jabin, king of Hazor, gathers a vast army of Canaanites at the Waters of Merom (locality uncertain, p. 32). The coalition was utterly defeated, the king w...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. SAID. See note on Joshua 3:7. HOUGH. sever the hamstring....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And the Lord said_ We may believe that Joshua was already some way on the march when these encouraging words were addressed to him. The distance from his encampment to the waters of Merom was too gre...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 6. _AND THE LORD SAID UNTO JOSHUA_— This was spoken in the camp at Gilgal. It is difficult to conceive how this matter could have been literally accomplished; since, from Gilgal to Hazor was si...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _The Defeat of Jabin Joshua 11:1-9_ And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LORD SAID UNTO JOSHUA, BE NOT AFRAID BECAUSE OF THEM: FOR TO MORROW ABOUT THIS TIME WILL I DELIVER THEM UP ALL SLAIN BEFORE ISRAEL: THOU SHALT HOUGH THEIR HORSES, AND BURN THEIR CHARIOTS WITH...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    11:6 slain (d-23) Lit. 'pierced through.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH Here there is no trace, as in the former case, of miraculous interposition. Joshua's generalship, courage, swiftness and loyalty are the prominent factors in the achievement...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THOU SHALT HOUGH, etc.] To 'hough' or 'hock'=to hamstring a horse. This was done, no doubt, during the battle, to stop the charge. The chariots were destroyed afterwards. 16-23. General retrospect of...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU SHALT HOUGH THEIR HORSES. — See Note on Joshua 11:9, and observe that the command of Jehovah is the authority for the act....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֣ה אֶל ־יְהֹושֻׁעַ֮ אַל ־תִּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JOSHUA'S OBEDIENCE TO THE LORD'S COMMANDS Joshua 11:1 The scene is removed to the waters of Merom, near the sources of the Jordan. Hazor was the capital of the region; Jabin, like Pharaoh, was an her...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    A new confederacy had now to be faced and fought. Conscious of their peril, the northern kings now joined in an attempt to break the power of those conquering hosts. Turning north, Joshua led an attac...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt (d) hough their horses, and burn their chariots w...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Hamstring their horses, &c. God so ordained, that his people might not trust in chariots and horses, but in him. (Challoner) --- He mentions the very time, when the victory will be obtained, to inspi...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader to remark with me on this verse, how gracious the Lord is to his servants, in the repeated communications of his assured love and favor. Joshua had been told by his God, that he would...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    In the wars of Jehovah it was not always a question of hostile power. Indeed this is not the most serious evil which the people of God have to encounter in this world. The very same principle which wa...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6._And the Lord said unto, Joshua, _etc The greater the labor and difficulty of destroying an army, so numerous and so well equipped, the more necessary was it to inspire them with new confidence. The...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Israel's victories bring fresh war upon them; but the confederation of their enemies only serves to deliver them all together into their hands. If God will not have peace, it is because He will have v...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD SAID UNTO JOSHUA, BE NOT AFRAID BECAUSE OF THEM,.... Of their number, of their horsemen, and of their scythed chariots; which might at first hearing occasion some fear and dread. And acco...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will deliver them up all slain_ The Seventy translate this τετροπωμενους, _put to flight:_ and it is certain they were not all slain, but many of them fled. The meaning therefore can only be, that...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Diuers Kings ouercome at the waters of Merom. 10 Hazor is taken and burnt. 16 All the countrey taken by Ioshua. 21 The Anakims cut off. [IOSHUA CONQUERETH DIUERS KINGS.] 1 AND it came to passe,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SECOND ALLIANCE OF HEATHEN KINGS AND THEIR DEFEAT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and the Lord said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them; for tomorrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel; thou shall hough, hamstring, THEIR HORSES, AND BURN THEIR CHA...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    CONQUEST OF NORTHERN ENEMIES (vs.1-15) Israel's returning for the time being to Gilgal gave time for the nations in the north to mobilize. In this God's wisdom is evident, for He brought these natio...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 The wonders God wrought for the Israelites were to encourage them to act vigorously themselves. Thus the war against Satan's kingdom, carried on by preaching the gospel, was at first forwarded by...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HOUGH THEIR HORSES, i.e. cut their hamstrings, that they may be unfit for war. For God forbade them to have or keep many horses, DEUTERONOMY 17:16, now especially, that they might not trust to their h...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ And YHWH said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hough their horses and burn their chariots with fir...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Final conquest of Canaan. CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, Jabin, Jobab. CONCLUSION: Those who, through obedience to His precepts, have God on their side, need not be disturbed as to the number an...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Joshua 11:1. _Hazor,_ then the metropolis of a powerful kingdom, Jeremiah 49:28, is situate on Lake _Merom,_ forty miles north of the sea of Galilee. Jabin with all the allies, 300,000 infantry, and 2...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _When Jabin king of Hazor had heard._ TAKE HEED HOW YE HEAR I. Healing and not hearing. The tidings of the overthrow of Sihon and Og, and the fall of Jericho, seem to have made almost no impression...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _THE OVERTHROW OF THE CITIES OF THE NORTH, AND GENERAL RETROSPECT_ CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 11:1. Hazor] In Joshua 11:11, Hazor is described as “the head” of all the kingdoms named in Joshua 11:1. It...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR.— JOSHUA 11:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS. The political constitution of Palestine was, humanly speaking, the cause of its overthrow. The division of the country into a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So in chapter eleven, the other kings when they had heard what happened to these kings that had come out against them, they also went out with their host. These are now the kings that are in the area...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 11:9; 2 Chronicles 20:16; 2 Samuel 8:4; Deuteronomy 7:16;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH Joshua 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have heard of old that "to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." This is true. The outstanding feature in...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Hough their horses — Cut their hamstrings that they may my be unfit for war. For God forbad them to keep many horses, now especially, that they might not trust to their horses, nor ascribe the conques...

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