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Then Joshuaיְהוֹשֻׁעַpassed on,וַיַּעֲבֹרand allוְכָלIsraelיִשְׂרָאֵלwith him,עִמּוֹfrom Libnahמִלִּבְנָהto Lachish,לָכִישָׁהand campedוַיִּחַןagainst itעָלֶיהָand foughtוַיִּלָּחֶםagainst it.בָּהּ
Joshua 10:31
Study it in the app“Then Joshua passed on, and all Israel with him, from Libnah to Lachish, and camped against it and fought against it.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joshua 10:31, word by word
- Then Joshuaיְהוֹשֻׁעַyehoshua
Joshua
Joshua, the helper and successor of Moses. The name means "YHWH saves"; in Greek it is the same name as "Jesus". Other men bore it, among them the high priest after the exile (Haggai 1:1).
Where else “yehoshua” appears- passed onיַּעֲבֹרyaavor
pass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “yaavor” appears- Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael
Israel
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appears- from Libnahלִּבְנָהlivna
Libnah
Libnah, a place in the wilderness where Israel camped; also a city in Canaan. The name means "whiteness."
Where else “livna” appears- to Lachishלָכִישָׁlachisha
Lachish
See it on the mapWhere else “lachisha” appears- and campedיִּחַןyichan
encamp
To pitch tents and stay, or besiege a city.
Where else “yichan” appears- and foughtיִּלָּחֶםyilachem
fight
To struggle against an enemy with weapons and give battle; God also fights for his people.
Where else “yilachem” appears
Places in this verse
Lachish
Today: Tel Lachish ruins, Israel
A fortified city in the low hills of Judah, about 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Jerusalem.
Joshua took it (Josh 10:32). Sennacherib attacked it before coming against Jerusalem (2 Kgs 18:14), and it was one of the last cities to fall to Babylon (Jer 34:7).
The context
30And YHWH gave it also, and its king, into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person who was in it; he left no survivor in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
31 · This verse (above)
32And YHWH gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he took it on the second day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person who was in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.