约书亚记 11:21

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

那時約書亞來了，把在山地、希伯崙、底璧、亞拿伯、整個猶大山地、整個以色列山地所有的亞衲族人都剪除了。約書亞把他們與他們的城鎮都完全毀滅了。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
当 时 约 书 亚 来 到 ， 将 住 山 地 、 希 伯 仑 、 底 璧 、 亚 拿 伯 、 犹 大 山 地 、 以 色 列 山 地 所 有 的 亚 衲 族 人 剪 除 了 。 约 书 亚 将 他 们 和 他 们 的 城 邑 尽 都 毁 灭 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Long ago the Lord had commanded his servant Moses to do this, and then Moses had commanded Joshua to do it. Joshua did everything the Lord had commanded Moses. ¹⁶ So Joshua defeated all the people in the land. He had control of the mountains and the area of southern Canaan, all the areas of Goshen, the western hills, and the Jordan Valley. He controlled the mountains of Israel and all the hills near them. ¹⁷ Joshua controlled all the land from Mount Halak near Edom to Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon, below Mount Hermon. Joshua also captured all the kings in the land and killed them. ¹⁸ He fought against them for many years. ¹⁹ The people of only one city in all the land had made a peace agreement with Israel—the Hivites living in Gibeon. All the other cities were defeated in war. ²⁰ The Lord made those people stubborn so they would fight against Israel and he could completely destroy them without mercy. This is what the Lord had commanded Moses to do. ²¹ Now Joshua fought the Anakites who lived in the mountains of Hebron, Debir, Anab, Judah, and Israel, and he completely destroyed them and their towns. ²² There were no Anakites left living in the land of the Israelites and only a few were left in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod. ²³ Joshua took control of all the land of Israel as the Lord had told Moses to do long ago. He gave the land to Israel, because he had promised it to them. Then Joshua divided the land among the tribes of Israel, and there was peace in the land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Anakims: Joshua 14:12-14, Joshua 15:13, Joshua 15:14, Numbers 13:22, Numbers 13:23, Deuteronomy 1:28, Deuteronomy 2:21, Deuteronomy 9:2, Judges 1:10, Judges 1:11, Judges 1:20, Jeremiah 3:23, Jeremiah 9:23, Amos 2:9

Joshua destroyed: Joshua 10:42, Joshua 24:11, Joshua 24:12, Psalms 110:5, Psalms 110:6, Psalms 149:6-9, Revelation 6:2, Revelation 19:11-21

Reciprocal: Joshua 11:2 - on the north Joshua 11:16 - the mountain Judges 1:9 - afterward Ezekiel 6:2 - the mountains Luke 1:39 - city

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And at that time came Joshua,.... After he had made a conquest of the land, or at the time he made it, as before related:

and cut off the Anakims from the mountains; whither, upon the conquest of the land, they had betaken themselves, and lived in dens and caves: these were giants, so called from Anak the father of them; though these are not to be restrained to his posterity, but include all other giants in the land; and the Targum renders the word by "mighty men"; and as some of them dwelt in mountains, others in cities, as follows:

from Hebron; where the children of Anak dwelt when the spies were sent into the land between forty and fifty years before this; and though the inhabitants of Hebron had been before destroyed by Joshua, these Anakims, who very likely then made their escape, returned and took possession of it after Joshua's departure, and while he was engaged in making other conquests; as we find that after this others of the same race again possessed it, and were in the possession of it after the death of Joshua, when they were slain by the tribe of Judah, Judges 1:10; from Debir: where others of them also had got after the conquest of it; unless we suppose, as I see no great reason to object to it, that these were cut off both at Hebron and Debir, at the time of the taking of them, of which see Joshua 10:36;

from Anab; a city which fell to the lot of the tribe of Judah,

Joshua 15:50. Jerom g says, in his time it was a village, near Diospolis or Lydda, about four miles from it to the east, and called Bethoannaba; but he says, that most affirm it to be eight miles from it, and called Bethannaba: Masius conjectures, that it is the same with the city of Nob; for, he says, that travellers in those parts affirm, that the city Nob is called Bethanoba and Bethanopolis:

and from all the mountains of Judah; the hill country of Judea, and the mountains round about Jerusalem:

and from all the mountains of Israel; as those about Samaria, and elsewhere:

Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities; which they had formerly inhabited, or had got into the possession of.

g De loc. Heb. fol. 88. C.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

At that time - i. e. in course of the “long time” mentioned in Joshua 11:18.

The Anakims - See Numbers 13:22. As it was the report of the spies respecting the Anakims which, above all, struck terror into the Israelites in the wilderness, and caused their faithless complaining and revolt, so the sacred writer goes back here in his story to record pointedly the overthrow of this gigantic and formidable race. They had their chief settlements in the mountains around Hebron Joshua 10:3 or Debir. See Joshua 15:15.

Anab was a city in the mountain district of Judah, lying some distance south of Hebron. It still bears its ancient name.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 11:21. Cut off the Anakims - from Hebron, from Debir — This is evidently a recapitulation of the military operations detailed Joshua 10:36-41.

Destroyed - their cities — That is, those of the Anakims; for from Joshua 11:13 we learn that Joshua preserved certain other cities.