Joshua 10:33

33 At that time Horam, king of Gazer, came up to succour Lachis: and Josue slew him with all his people so as to leave none alive.

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 From Lebna he passed unto Lachis, with all Israel: and investing it with his army, besieged it.

32 And the Lord delivered Lachis into the hands of Israel, and he took it the following day, and put it to the sword, and every soul that was in it, as he had done to Lebna.

33 At that time Horam, king of Gazer, came up to succour Lachis: and Josue slew him with all his people so as to leave none alive.

34 And he passed from Lachis to Eglon, and surrounded it,

35 And took it the same day: and put to the sword all the souls that were in it, according to all that he had done to Lachis.