YuēShūyàjì 11:5

5 Zhè zhū wáng huìhé , lái dào Mǐlún shuǐ bian , yītóng ān yíng , yào yǔ Yǐsèliè rén zhēng zhàn .

YuēShūyàjì 11:5 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 11:5

And when all those kings were met together
At some certain place, which Jabin had appointed:

they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom:
Josephus ^F1 says it was at Berotha; perhaps it should be Merotha, a city of upper Galilee, not far from Cedesa, the same he elsewhere calls ^F2 Meroth, These waters are the same with the lake Samachonitis, on which Hazor was situated; so that it was near Jabin where the rendezvous was. This lake is thought ^F3 to have its name from the Arabic word "Samacha", which signifies high, as Merom does in Hebrew. It was, as Josephus says

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 thirty furlongs broad, and sixty long, and its waters clayish. Jerom says ^F5, in his time there was here a village called Merrus, twelve miles from the city Sebaste by Dothaim: here the kings and their armies met

to fight against Israel;
so that they were the aggressors, which made the war still more lawful.

F1 Ibid. (Antiq. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 8.)
F2 De Bello Jud. l. 2. c. 20. sect. 6.
F3 Reland. Palestin. Illustrat. tom. 1. p. 262.
F4 De Bello Jud. l. 4. c. 1. sect. 1. & l. 3. c. 9. sect. 7.
F5 De loc. Heb. fol. 93. D.

YuēShūyàjì 11:5 In-Context

3 Yòu qù jiàn dōngfāng hé xī fāng de Jiānán rén , yǔ shān dì de Yàmólìrén , Hèrén , Bǐlìxǐrén , Yēbùsīrén , bìng Hēimén shān gēn Mǐsībā dì de Xīwèirén .

4 Zhèxie wáng hé tāmende zhòng jūn dōu chūlai , rén shǔ duō rú hǎi bian de shā , bìng yǒu xǔduō mǎ pǐ chēliàng .

5 Zhè zhū wáng huìhé , lái dào Mǐlún shuǐ bian , yītóng ān yíng , yào yǔ Yǐsèliè rén zhēng zhàn .

6 Yēhéhuá duì Yuēshūyà shuō , nǐ búyào yīn tāmen jùpà . míngrì zhè shí , wǒ bìjiāng tāmen jiāofù Yǐsèliè rén quán rán shā le . nǐ yào kǎn duàn tāmen mǎ de tí jīn , yòng huǒ fùnshāo tāmende chēliàng .

7 Yúshì Yuēshūyà shuaìlǐng yīqiè bīng dīng , zaì Mǐlún shuǐ bian tū rán xiàng qián gōngdǎ tāmen .