Joshua 11:5

Myles Coverdale Bible

All these kinges gathered the selues, and came, and pitched together by ye water of Meram, to fighte with Israel.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All these kings joined forces; they came and camped together at the Waters of Merom to attack Israel.

Hebrew Names Version
All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Yisra'el.

King James Version
And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

Lexham English Bible
And all these kings joined forces, and they came and camped together by the waters of Merom to fight with Israel.

English Standard Version
And all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.

New Century Version
All of these kings met together at the waters of Merom, joined their armies together into one camp, and made plans to fight against the Israelites.

New English Translation
All these kings gathered and joined forces at the Waters of Merom to fight Israel.

Amplified Bible
So all these kings met and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

New American Standard Bible
So all of these kings gathered together, and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So all these Kings met together, and came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, for to fight against Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
So all of these kings agreed to meet, and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

Complete Jewish Bible
All these kings met together, then came and pitched camp together at the Merom Spring, to fight Isra'el.

Darby Translation
And all these kings met together, and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

Easy-to-Read Version
All these kings met together at the small river of Merom. They joined their armies together into one camp and made plans for the battle against Israel.

George Lamsa Translation
And when all these kings were met together, they came and encamped together at the waters of Meron, and prepared to fight against Israel.

Good News Translation
All of these kings joined forces and came together and set up camp at Merom Brook to fight against Israel.

Literal Translation
And all these kings met together. And they came and camped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

American Standard Version
And all these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

Bible in Basic English
And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all these kinges met together, and came & pitched together at the waters of Merom, for to fight against Israel.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all these kings met together, and they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

King James Version (1611)
And when all these Kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all the kings assembled in person, and came to the same place, and encamped at the waters of Maron to war with Israel.

English Revised Version
And all these kings met together; and they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
All these kings joined forces and encamped at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And alle these kyngis camen togidere at the watris of Meron, to fiyte ayens Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
and all these kings are met together, and they come and encamp together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

Update Bible Version
And all these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when all these kings were met together, they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

World English Bible
All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

New King James Version
And when all these kings had met together, they came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.

New Living Translation
The kings joined forces and established their camp around the water near Merom to fight against Israel.

New Life Bible
All of these kings met and came and stayed together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

New Revised Standard
All these kings joined their forces, and came and camped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when all these kings were gathered together, they came in, and encamped as one man, at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all these kings assembled together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

Revised Standard Version
And all these kings joined their forces, and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So all of these kings having agreed to meet, came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

Contextual Overview

¹ Whan Iabin the kynge of Asor herde this, he sent vnto Iabob the kynge of Madon and to the kynge of Samron, and to the kynge of Achsaph, ² and to the kynges that dwelt towarde the north vpon the mountaynes, and in the playne on the southsyde of Cineroth, and in the lowe countrees, and in the lordshippes of Dor by the see syde: ³ and to the Cananites towarde ye east and west, to ye Amorites, Hethites, Pheresites, and Iebusites, vpon the mountaynes and to the Heuites, vnder mount Hermon in the londe of Mispa. ⁴ These wete out with all their armies, a greate people, as many as ye sonde of the see, and exceadinge many horses and charettes. ⁵ All these kinges gathered the selues, and came, and pitched together by ye water of Meram, to fighte with Israel. ⁶ And the LORDE sayde vnto Iosua: Feare them not, for tomorow aboute this tyme wil I delyuer them all slayne, before the children of Israel: thou shalt lame their horses, and burne their charettes with fire. ⁷ And Iosua came sodenly vpon them, and all the men of warre with him by the water of Merom, & fell vpon them. ⁸ And the LORDE delyuered them in to ye handes of Israel, and they smote them, and chaced them vnto greate Sido and to the warme water, and to the playne of Mispa towarde ye east: and smote them, vntyll there remayned not one. ⁹ Then dealte Iosua with them as ye LORDE had saide vnto him, & lamed theis horses, & brent their charettes.

Bible Verse Review
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all these: Psalms 3:1, Psalms 118:10-12, Isaiah 8:9, Revelation 16:14

met together: Heb. assembled by appointment

waters: This is what Josephus calls the lake Semechon, now called Bahr-el-Houle - Lake Julius between the head of the Jordan and the lake of Tiberias. According to Josephus it was seven miles long; and according to modern authorities, it is not above two miles broad, except at the north end, where it may be four.

Cross-References

Genesis 11:13
and lyued therafter foure hundreth and thre yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.

Genesis 11:14
Salah was thirtie yeare olde, and begat Eber,

Genesis 11:23
and lyued therafter two hundreth yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.

Genesis 11:24
Nahor was nyene and twentye yeare olde, and begat Terah,

Genesis 18:21
therfore will I go downe & se, whether they haue done all together, acordinge to that crye, which is come before me, or not, that I maye knowe.

Exodus 3:8
and am come downe to delyuer them from the power of the Egipcians, and to carye them out of that lode, in to a good and wyde londe, euen in to a londe that floweth with mylke and hony: namely, vnto the place of the Cananites, Hethites, Amorites, Pheresites, Heuytes & Iebusites.

Exodus 19:11
and be ready agaynst the thirde daye: for vpon the thirde daye shall the LORDE come downe vpon mount Sinai before all the people.

Exodus 19:18
But all mount Sinai smoked, because ye LORDE came downe vpo it with fyre. And the smoke therof wente vp as the smoke of a fornace, so that the whole mount was exceadinge terrible.

Exodus 19:20
Now whan the LORDE was come downe vpon mount Sinai, euen vpon the toppe of it, he called Moses vp vnto ye toppe of the mount. And Moses wente vp.

Psalms 11:4
But the LORDE is in his holy temple, the LORDES seate is in heauen: He cosidereth it with his eyes, his eye lyddes beholde the children of men.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when all those kings were met together,.... At some certain place, which Jabin had appointed:

they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom: Josephus a says it was at Berotha; perhaps it should be Merotha, a city of upper Galilee, not far from Cedesa, the same he elsewhere calls b Meroth, These waters are the same with the lake Samachonitis, on which Hazor was situated; so that it was near Jabin where the rendezvous was. This lake is thought c to have its name from the Arabic word "Samacha", which signifies high, as Merom does in Hebrew. It was, as Josephus says d thirty furlongs broad, and sixty long, and its waters clayish. Jerom says e, in his time there was here a village called Merrus, twelve miles from the city Sebaste by Dothaim: here the kings and their armies met

to fight against Israel; so that they were the aggressors, which made the war still more lawful.

a Ibid. (Antiq. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 8.) b De Bello Jud. l. 2. c. 20. sect. 6. c Reland. Palestin. Illustrat. tom. 1. p. 262. d De Bello Jud. l. 4. c. 1. sect. 1. & l. 3. c. 9. sect. 7. e De loc. Heb. fol. 93. D.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Waters of Merom - i. e. “the upper waters,” the modern Bahr el Huleh, the lake Semechonitis, or Samochonitis of Josephus. This lake occupies the southern half of the Ard el Huleh, a depressed basin some 15 miles long and 3 or 4 miles wide lying between the hills of Galilee on the west and the lower spurs of Hermon on the east. The size of the lake varies with the season, and the northern side of it ends in a large swamp. The shape of the lake is triangular, the point being at the south, where the Jordan, which enters it on the north, again quits it. There is a considerable space of tableland along the southwestern shore, and here probably the troops of Jabin and his confederates were encamped, preparing to move southward when Joshua and his army fell suddenly upon them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 11:5. The waters of Merom — Where these waters were, interpreters are not agreed. Whether they were the waters of the Lake Semechon, or the waters of Megiddo, mentioned Judges 5:19, cannot be easily determined. The latter is the more probable opinion.