Joshua 10:33

33 At that time King Horam of Gezer had come to help Lachish. But Joshua killed him and his troops. There were no survivors.

Joshua 10:33 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 10:33

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish
Perhaps the rather induced to it, because it had no king to defend it. In Jerom's ^F5 time it was a village called Gazera, four miles from Nicopolis, or Emmaus, to the north: if this king came before the city was taken, he was not able to raise the siege; and if he came after, and so too late, he fell into the hands of Joshua:

and Joshua smote him, and his people, until he had left him none
remaining;
destroyed him and all his army, so that there were none left to return and relate their unhappy case.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 De loc. Heb. fol. 92. A.

Joshua 10:33 In-Context

31 Joshua and all Israel marched from Libnah to Lachish, camped there, and attacked it.

32 The LORD handed Lachish over to Israel. He captured it on the next day and killed all the people, the same way he had captured Libnah.

33 At that time King Horam of Gezer had come to help Lachish. But Joshua killed him and his troops. There were no survivors.

34 Joshua and all Israel marched from Lachish to Eglon, camped there, and attacked it.

35 They captured it that day and killed everyone in it. He claimed it for the LORD by destroying it the same way he had destroyed Lachish.