13The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
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And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:
Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-24)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 Lebanon in the north to Halak, which lay upon the country of Edom in the south, Josh. 12:7. The boundaries are more largely described, Num. 34:2-12 But what is here said is enough to show that God had been…
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