Josué 11:20

Darby's French Translation

Car ce fut de par l'Éternel que leur coeur fut endurci pour s'en aller en guerre contre Israël, afin qu'il les détruisît entièrement sans qu'il y eût pour eux de merci; car c'était afin de les détruire, comme l'Éternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Car cela venait de l'Éternel, qu'ils endurcissent leur cœur pour sortir en bataille contre Israël; afin de les vouer à l'interdit sans qu'il y eût pour eux de merci, mais afin de les exterminer, comme l'Éternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

Louis Segond (1910)
Car l'Eternel permit que ces peuples s'obstinassent à faire la guerre contre Israël, afin qu'Israël les dévouât par interdit, sans qu'il y eût pour eux de miséricorde, et qu'il les détruisît, comme l'Eternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Car cela venait de l'Eternel qu'ils endurcissaient leur cœur pour sortir en bataille contre Israël, afin qu'il les détruisît à la façon de l'interdit, sans qu'il leur fît aucune grâce; mais qu'il les exterminât, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

it was: Exodus 4:21, Exodus 9:16, Deuteronomy 2:30, Judges 14:4, 1 Samuel 2:25, 1 Kings 12:15, 1 Kings 22:20-23, 2 Chronicles 25:16, Isaiah 6:9, Isaiah 6:10, Romans 9:18, Romans 9:22, Romans 9:23

as the Lord: Joshua 11:12-15, Deuteronomy 20:16, Deuteronomy 20:17

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:1 - then Deuteronomy 20:11 - tributaries Joshua 6:25 - Rahab Joshua 8:17 - a man Joshua 10:1 - how the Joshua 19:36 - Hazor Judges 4:7 - And I Esther 9:2 - as sought Psalms 46:8 - desolations Isaiah 63:17 - and hardened John 12:40 - hardened Romans 2:5 - But after

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts,.... As he hardened the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, that his power might be displayed in their destruction:

that they should come against Israel battle; and so fall in it:

that he might destroy them utterly; for their abominable wickedness, idolatry, incest, c. they had been guilty of:

[and] that they might have no favour which they would have had, had they made peace as the Gibeonites did; or that they might not pray and make supplication, the Lord not giving them a spirit of supplication, but an hard heart, as Gussetius f observes the words may be interpreted, though he seems to prefer the former, sense:

but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses; Deuteronomy 7:1.

f Comment. Ebr. p. 272.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal references.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 11:20. It was of the Lord to harden their hearts — They had sinned against all the light they had received, and God left them justly to the hardness, obstinacy, and pride of their own hearts; for as they chose to retain their idolatry, God was determined that they should be cut off. For as no city made peace with the Israelites but Gibeon and some others of the Hivites, Joshua 11:19, it became therefore necessary to destroy them; for their refusal to make peace was the proof that they wilfully persisted in their idolatry.