约书亚记 10:28

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

約書亞攻取南部各城在那天，約書亞佔領了瑪基大，用刀擊殺了那城的人和那城的王，把城中所有的人完全毀滅，不容一人逃脫；他對待瑪基大王就像對待耶利哥王一樣。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
当 日 ， 约 书 亚 夺 了 玛 基 大 ， 用 刀 击 杀 城 中 的 人 和 王 ； 将 其 中 一 切 人 口 尽 行 杀 灭 ， 没 有 留 下 一 个 。 他 待 玛 基 大 王 ， 像 从 前 待 耶 利 哥 王 一 样 。

Contextual Overview

²⁸ That day Joshua defeated Makkedah. He killed the king and completely destroyed all the people in that city as an offering to the Lord ; no one was left alive. He did the same thing to the king of Makkedah that he had done to the king of Jericho. ²⁹ Joshua and all the Israelites traveled from Makkedah to Libnah and attacked it. ³⁰ The Lord handed over the city and its king. They killed every person in the city; no one was left alive. And they did the same thing to that king that they had done to the king of Jericho. ³¹ Then Joshua and all the Israelites left Libnah and went to Lachish, which they surrounded and attacked. ³² The Lord handed over Lachish on the second day. The Israelites killed everyone in that city just as they had done to Libnah. ³³ During this same time Horam king of Gezer came to help Lachish, but Joshua also defeated him and his army; no one was left alive. ³⁴ Then Joshua and all the Israelites went from Lachish to Eglon. They surrounded Eglon, attacked it, and ³⁵ captured it the same day. They killed all its people and completely destroyed everything in it as an offering to the Lord , just as they had done to Lachish. ³⁶ Then Joshua and the Israelites went from Eglon to Hebron and attacked it, ³⁷ capturing it and all the little towns near it. The Israelites killed everyone in Hebron; no one was left alive there. Just as they had done to Eglon, they completely destroyed the city and all its people as an offering to the Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Makkedah: Situated, according to Eusebius, 8 miles east from Eleutheropolis. It was afterwards assigned to the tribe of Judah. Joshua 15:41

them: Joshua 10:32, Joshua 10:35, Joshua 10:37, Joshua 10:39, Joshua 6:21, Deuteronomy 7:2, Deuteronomy 7:16, Deuteronomy 20:16, Deuteronomy 20:17, Psalms 21:8, Psalms 21:9, Psalms 110:1, Luke 19:27, 1 Corinthians 15:25

and he did: Joshua 10:30, Joshua 8:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:21 - not kill him Exodus 17:13 - General Joshua 8:22 - let none Joshua 9:1 - all the kings Joshua 10:10 - Makkedah Joshua 10:29 - Libnah Joshua 11:12 - all the Joshua 12:16 - Makkedah

Cross-References

Genesis 10:20
All these people were the sons of Ham, and all these families had their own languages, their own lands, and their own nations.

Genesis 10:28
Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Genesis 25:3
Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan's descendants were the people of Assyria, Letush, and Leum.

1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to test him with hard questions.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And that day Joshua took Makkedah,.... Some say it was the day on which the sun stood still; but it seems to mean the day in which the five kings were hanged:

and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof; slew the inhabitants of it and their king, after having entered and taken it:

he utterly destroyed them and all the souls that [were] therein, he let none remain; that is, all human souls or persons; for the cattle were taken for a prey:

and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho; slew him with the sword, along with the inhabitants, but did not hang him up, as he did the king of Ai and the five kings.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. That day Joshua took Makkedah — It is very possible that Makkedah was taken on the evening of the same day in which the miraculous solstice took place; but as to the other cities mentioned in this chapter, they certainly were subdued some days after, as it is not possible that an army, exhausted as this must have been with a whole night's march, and two days' hard fighting, could have proceeded farther than Makkedah that night; the other cities were successively taken in the following days.