约书亚记 10:3

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

因此，耶路撒冷王亞多尼．洗德派人到希伯崙王何咸、耶末王毗蘭、拉吉王雅非亞和伊磯倫王底璧那裡去，對他們說：

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
所 以 耶 路 撒 冷 王 亚 多 尼 洗 德 打 发 人 去 见 希 伯 仑 王 何 咸 、 耶 末 王 ? 兰 、 拉 吉 王 雅 非 亚 ， 和 伊 矶 伦 王 底 璧 ， 说 ：

Contextual Overview

¹ At this time Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had defeated Ai and completely destroyed it, as he had also done to Jericho and its king. The king also learned that the Gibeonites had made a peace agreement with Israel and that they lived nearby. ² Adoni-Zedek and his people were very afraid because of this. Gibeon was not a little town like Ai; it was a large city, as big as a city that had a king, and all its men were good fighters. ³ So Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent a message to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon. He begged them, ⁴ "Come with me and help me attack Gibeon, which has made a peace agreement with Joshua and the Israelites." ⁵ Then these five Amorite kings—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—gathered their armies, went to Gibeon, surrounded it, and attacked it. ⁶ The Gibeonites sent this message to Joshua in his camp at Gilgal: "Don't let us, your servants, be destroyed. Come quickly and help us! Save us! All the Amorite kings from the mountains have joined their armies and are fighting against us."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

king of Jerusalem: Joshua 10:1, Joshua 10:5, Joshua 12:10-13, Joshua 15:35-39, Joshua 15:54, Joshua 15:63, Joshua 18:28

Hebron: Hebron was situated on an eminence, 20 miles south of Jerusalem, and the same distance north of Beersheba. It is now called El Khalil, "the well-beloved," the usual epithet which the Turks and Arabs apply to Abraham, whose sepulchral cave they still shew; over which St. Helena built a magnificent church Its original site was on an eminence, at the southern foot of which the present village is pleasantly situated, on which are the remains of an ancient castle, its sole defence. Joshua 14:15, Genesis 23:2, Genesis 37:14, Numbers 13:22, 2 Samuel 2:11

Lachish: 2 Kings 18:14, 2 Kings 18:17, 2 Chronicles 11:9, Micah 1:13

Reciprocal: Joshua 10:23 - General Joshua 10:31 - Lachish Joshua 10:34 - Eglon Joshua 10:36 - Hebron Joshua 11:1 - he sent Joshua 12:11 - Jarmuth Joshua 12:12 - Eglon Joshua 12:13 - Debir Joshua 15:15 - General Joshua 15:39 - Lachish Joshua 21:29 - Jarmuth 2 Samuel 5:6 - Jerusalem 1 Chronicles 6:58 - Debir Nehemiah 11:30 - Lachish Psalms 83:5 - they are Jeremiah 34:7 - Lachish

Cross-References

Jeremiah 51:27
"Lift up a banner in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Get the nations ready for battle against Babylon. Call these kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz to fight against her. Choose a commander to lead the army against Babylon. Send so many horses that they are like a swarm of locusts.

Ezekiel 27:14
"‘People of Beth Togarmah traded your goods for work horses, war horses, and mules.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron,.... Which, according to Jerom d was twenty two miles from Jerusalem; it was an ancient city built seven years before Zoan in Egypt; :- and

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and unto Piram king of Jarmuth; a city which fell to the lot of Judah, as did Hebron, Joshua 15:35; according to Jerom e, it was four miles distant from Eleutheropolis; according to Procopius f fourteen, about the village Eshtaol, near to which Samson was buried, Judges 16:31; but Jerom g speaks of a city called Jermus, in the tribe of Judah, which seems to be the same with this; and which he says in his day was a village, that went by the name of Jermucha, ten miles from Eleutheropolis, as you go to Aelia or Jerusalem; and as Eleutheropolis lay twenty miles from Jerusalem, this place must be ten miles from it, lying between them both:

and unto Japhia king of Lachish; which the above writer says h was a city in the tribe of Judah, and in his time a village, seven miles from Eleutheropolis, as you go to Daroma, or the south; and, according to Bunting i, it lay between Eleutheropolis and Hebron, and was twenty miles from Jerusalem towards the southwest:

and unto Debir king of Eglon; which the Septuagint version calls Odollam or Adullam; and Jerom, following this version, makes Eglon the same with Adullam, when it is certain they were different places, and had distinct kings over them, Joshua 12:12; and which he says k in his time was a very large village, twelve miles from Eleutheropolis to the east; and, according to Bunting l it was twelve miles from Jerusalem southward. To these four kings the king of Jerusalem sent:

saying; as follows.

d De loc. Heb. fol. 87. E. e lb. fol. 92. H. f Apud Reland. Palestin. Illustrat. l. 2. p. 505. g Ut supra, (De loc. Heb. fol. 92.) I. h Ib. M. i Travels, p. 99. k De loc. Heb. fol. 91. A. l Travels, p. 92.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For Hebron, see Genesis 13:18. Jarmuth, afterward one of the cities of Judah Joshua 15:35, is probably identified with the modern Yarmuk. Lachish was also a city of Judah Joshua 15:39, and, like Jarmuth, occupied by Jews after the captivity, Neh. 11:39. It was fortified by Rehoboam after the revolt of the Ten tribes 2 Chronicles 11:9, and seems to have been regarded as one of the safest places of refuge 2 Kings 14:19. Through Lachish the idolatry of Israel was imported into Judah Micah 1:13, and of this sin the capture of the city by Sennacherib was the punishment 2 Kings 18:14-17; 2 Kings 19:8. Lachish is by most authorities identified with Um Lakis, lying some twenty miles west of Eleutheropolis, on the road to Gaza (and by Conder with El Hesy).

Eglon is the modern Ajlan.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 10:3. Hoham king of Hebron — This city was situated in the mountains, southward of Jerusalem, from which it was about thirty miles distant. It fell to the tribe of Judah.

Piram king of Jarmuth — There were two cities of this name; one belonged to the tribe of Issachar, see Joshua 21:29; that mentioned here fell to the tribe of Judah, see Joshua 15:35; it is supposed to have been about eighteen miles distant from Jerusalem.

Japhia king of Lachish — This city is celebrated in Scripture; in that city Amaziah was slain by conspirators, 2 Kings 14:19. It was besieged by Sennacherib, 2 Kings 18:14; 2 Kings 18:17; and without effect by the king of Assyria, as we learn from Isaiah 37:8: it was also besieged by the army of Nebuchadnezzar, see Jeremiah 34:7; it also fell to the lot of Judah, Joshua 15:39.

Debir king of Eglon — Where this city was situated is very uncertain; but we learn from Joshua 15:39, that it fell to the lot of the tribe of Judah.