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6 But the Lord said to Joshua, a“Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You shall bhamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”  
7 So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and they attacked them.
8 And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them and chased them to1 Greater aSidon, to the Brook bMisrephoth, and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until they left none of them remaining.  
9 So Joshua did to them as the Lord had told him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
10 Joshua turned back at that time and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor was formerly the head of all those kingdoms.
11 And they struck all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, autterly destroying them. There was none left bbreathing. Then he burned Hazor with fire.  
12 So all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took and struck with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, aas Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.  
13 But as for the cities that stood on their1 mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only, which Joshua burned.  
14 And all the aspoil of these cities and the livestock, the children of Israel took as booty for themselves; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they left none breathing.  
15 aAs the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so bMoses commanded Joshua, and cso Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses.  
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Adam Clarke
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Joshua 11:8

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 works of skill and utility, and abounding in wealth: -

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Iliad, lib. vi., ver. 289.

"There lay the ventures of no vulgar art,

Sidonian maids embroidered every part."

Pope.

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Iliad, lib. xxiii., ver. 741.

"A silver urn that full six measures held,

By none in weight or workmanship excell' d;

Sidonian artists taught the frame to shine,

Elaborate with artifice divine."

Pope.

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Odyss. xv. 424.

"I am of Sidon, famous for her wealth."

The art of making glass is attributed by Pliny to this city: Sidon artifex vitri , Hist. Nat. l. v., c. 19.

Misrephoth-maim - Or, Misrephoth of the waters. What this place was is unknown, but Calmet conjectures it to be the same with Sarepta, a city of Phoenicia, contiguous to Sidon. The word signifies the burning of the waters, or inflammation; probably it was a place noted for its hot springs: this idea seems to have struck Luther, as he translates it, die warme wasser , the hot waters.




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