Joshua 10:33

Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to the help of Lachish; and Joshua overcame him and his people, putting all of them to death.

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In The King James Version

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

In Context

32And the Lord gave Lachish into the hands of Israel, and on the second day he took it, putting it and every person in it to the sword without mercy, as he had done to Libnah.

34And Joshua and all Israel with him went on from Lachish to Eglon: and they took up their position against it and made an attack on it;

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Cross References

Joshua 16:3And it goes down to the west to the limit of the Japhletites, to the limit of Beth-horon the lower, as far as Gezer; ending at the sea.

Joshua 21:21And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;

2 Samuel 5:25And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.

1 Chronicles 6:67And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts,

Matthew Henry on Joshua 10:29-43

Seven Kings Defeated and Slain. ( b. c. 1450.) 28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho. 29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah: 30 And the Lord delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of… Read the whole commentary →

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