YuēShūyàjì 10:10

10 Yēhéhuá shǐ tāmen zaì Yǐsèliè rén miànqián kuì luàn . Yuēshūyà zaì Jībiàn dàdà dì shā baì tāmen , zhuīgǎn tāmen , zaì Bǎihélún de shàng pō lù jī shā tāmen , zhídào Yàxījiā hé Mǎjīdà .

YuēShūyàjì 10:10 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 10:10

And the Lord discomfited them before Israel
Disturbed, troubled, and frightened them, at the appearance and presence of the people of Israel; they were thrown into terror and confusion upon their approach, being so sudden and unexpected:

and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon;
by the Israelites, who came upon them suddenly:

and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron;
there were two places of this name, the upper and the nether, both built by Sherah, the daughter or granddaughter of Ephraim, ( 1 Chronicles 7:24 ) ; therefore here so called by anticipation. It was about an hundred furlongs, or twelve miles and a half, according to Josephus ^F15, from Jerusalem, which agrees with Eusebius and Jerom; and from Gibeon thither, it was fifty furlongs, or six miles and a quarter; so far the kings were pursued by Joshua and his army, at least unto the ascent of it; for being built on a hill, it had an ascent on one side, and a descent on the other, after mentioned, and both were very narrow passages; of the former it is said in the Talmud ^F16, that if two camels go up the ascent to Bethhoron, they both fall; upon which the gloss says, it is a narrow place, and there is no way to turn to the right hand, or the left:

and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah;
the former of which is placed by Jerom ^F17 between Eleutheropolis and Jerusalem, and was a village in his days, and the other eight miles from Eleutheropolis, and both in the tribe of Judah, see ( Joshua 15:35 Joshua 15:41 ) ; according to Bunting {r}, they were both eight miles from Jerusalem towards the west.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Antiqu. l. 20. c. 4. sect. 4.
F16 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 32. 2.
F17 De loc. Heb. fol. 88. A. & 93. C.
F18 Travels p. 98.

YuēShūyàjì 10:10 In-Context

8 Yēhéhuá duì Yuēshūyà shuō , búyào pà tāmen . yīnwei wǒ yǐ jiāng tāmen jiāo zaì nǐ shǒu lǐ , tāmen wú yī rén néng zaì nǐ miànqián shān lì de zhù .

9 Yuēshūyà jiù zhōng yè cóng Jíjiǎ shàng qù , mĕng rán líndào tāmen nàli .

10 Yēhéhuá shǐ tāmen zaì Yǐsèliè rén miànqián kuì luàn . Yuēshūyà zaì Jībiàn dàdà dì shā baì tāmen , zhuīgǎn tāmen , zaì Bǎihélún de shàng pō lù jī shā tāmen , zhídào Yàxījiā hé Mǎjīdà .

11 Tāmen zaì Yǐsèliè rén miànqián taópǎo , zhèngzaì Bǎihélún xià pō de shíhou , Yēhéhuá cóng tiān shàng jiàng dà bīngbaó ( bīngbaó yuánwén zuò shítou ) zaì tāmen shēnshang , zhí jiàng dào Yàxījiā , dá sǐ tāmen . beì bīngbaó dá sǐ de , bǐ Yǐsèliè rén yòng dāo shā sǐ de hái duō .

12 Dàng Yēhéhuá jiāng Yàmólìrén jiāofù Yǐsèliè rén de rìzi , Yuēshūyà jiù dǎogào Yēhéhuá , zaì Yǐsèliè rén yǎnqián shuō , rìtou a , nǐ yào tíng zaì Jībiàn . yuèliang a , nǐ yào zhǐ zaì Yàyǎlún gǔ .