Josué 11:21

21 Y por aquel tiempo Josué fue y destruyó a los anaceos de la región montañosa, de Hebrón, de Debir, de Anab, de toda la región montañosa de Judá y de toda la región montañosa de Israel. Josué los destruyó por completo con sus ciudades.

Josué 11:21 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 11:21

And at that time came Joshua
After he had made a conquest of the land, or at the time he made it, as before related:

and cut off the Anakims from the mountains;
whither, upon the conquest of the land, they had betaken themselves, and lived in dens and caves: these were giants, so called from Anak the father of them; though these are not to be restrained to his posterity, but include all other giants in the land; and the Targum renders the word by "mighty men"; and as some of them dwelt in mountains, others in cities, as follows:

from Hebron;
where the children of Anak dwelt when the spies were sent into the land between forty and fifty years before this; and though the inhabitants of Hebron had been before destroyed by Joshua, these Anakims, who very likely then made their escape, returned and took possession of it after Joshua's departure, and while he was engaged in making other conquests; as we find that after this others of the same race again possessed it, and were in the possession of it after the death of Joshua, when they were slain by the tribe of Judah, ( Judges 1:10 ) ; from Debir: where others of them also had got after the conquest of it; unless we suppose, as I see no great reason to object to it, that these were cut off both at Hebron and Debir, at the time of the taking of them, of which see ( Joshua 10:36-39 ) ;

from Anab;
a city which fell to the lot of the tribe of Judah, ( Joshua 15:50 ) . Jerom ^F7 says, in his time it was a village, near Diospolis or Lydda, about four miles from it to the east, and called Bethoannaba; but he says, that most affirm it to be eight miles from it, and called Bethannaba: Masius conjectures, that it is the same with the city of Nob; for, he says, that travellers in those parts affirm, that the city Nob is called Bethanoba and Bethanopolis:

and from all the mountains of Judah;
the hill country of Judea, and the mountains round about Jerusalem:

and from all the mountains of Israel;
as those about Samaria, and elsewhere:

Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities;
which they had formerly inhabited, or had got into the possession of.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 De loc. Heb. fol. 88. C.

Josué 11:21 In-Context

19 No hubo ciudad que hiciera paz con los hijos de Israel, excepto los heveos que vivían en Gabaón; de todas se apoderaron por la fuerza.

20 Porque fue la intención del SEÑOR endurecer el corazón de ellos, para que se enfrentaran en batalla con Israel, a fin de que fueran destruidos por completo, sin que tuviera piedad de ellos y los exterminara, tal como el SEÑOR había ordenado a Moisés.

21 Y por aquel tiempo Josué fue y destruyó a los anaceos de la región montañosa, de Hebrón, de Debir, de Anab, de toda la región montañosa de Judá y de toda la región montañosa de Israel. Josué los destruyó por completo con sus ciudades.

22 No quedaron anaceos en la tierra de los hijos de Israel; sólo quedaron algunos en Gaza, en Gat y en Asdod.

23 Tomó, pues, Josué toda la tierra de acuerdo con todo lo que el SEÑOR había dicho a Moisés. Y Josué la dio por heredad a Israel conforme a sus divisiones por sus tribus. Y la tierra descansó de la guerra.