Joshua 10:33

33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he left none remaining.

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 And Joshua passed on from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and laid siege to it, and assaulted it:

32 and the LORD gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah.

33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he left none remaining.

34 And Joshua passed on with all Israel from Lachish to Eglon; and they laid siege to it, and assaulted it;

35 and they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword; and every person in it he utterly destroyed that day, as he had done to Lachish.