Giosuè 10:33

La Nuova Diodati

Allora Horam, re di Ghezer, sal in aiuto di Lakish; ma Giosu batt lui e il suo popolo fino a non lasciargli alcun superstite.

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
ma Giosuè batté lui e il suo popolo così da non lasciarne scampare alcuno.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Allora Horam, re di Ghezer, salì per soccorrer Lachis; ma Giosuè percosse lui e il suo popolo, fino a non lasciargli alcuno in vita.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Gezer: Gezer was situated on the confines of Ephraim and Manasseh, between Beth-horon and the sea; and is evidently the village of Gazara mentioned by Eusebius, four miles - north from Nicopolis or Emmaus. Joshua 12:12, Joshua 16:3, Joshua 16:10, Joshua 21:21, Judges 1:29, 1 Kings 9:16, 1 Kings 9:17, 1 Chronicles 6:67, 1 Chronicles 20:4

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:29 - the king Joshua 10:39 - he left none 1 Kings 9:15 - Gezer

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish,.... Perhaps the rather induced to it, because it had no king to defend it. In Jerom's e time it was a village called Gazera, four miles from Nicopolis, or Emmaus, to the north: if this king came before the city was taken, he was not able to raise the siege; and if he came after, and so too late, he fell into the hands of Joshua:

and Joshua smote him, and his people, until he had left him none remaining; destroyed him and all his army, so that there were none left to return and relate their unhappy case.

e De loc. Heb. fol. 92. A.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gezer lies on the southern border of the tribe of Ephraim Joshua 16:3. It was considerably to the northward of Joshua’s present line of operations, and does not appear to have been captured at this time. He contented himself for the present with repulsing the attack made upon him, killed Horam (compare Joshua 12:12), inflicting a severe defeat upon his people, and then continued to pursue his conquests over the confederated kings and their allies in south Canaan.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 33. Horam king of Gezer — It is likely that Horam was in a state of alliance with the king of Lachish, and therefore came to his assistance as soon as it appeared that he was likely to be attacked. Joshua probably sent a detachment against him, before he was able to form a junction with the forces of Lachish; and utterly destroyed him and his army.

Gezer is supposed to have been situated near Azotus. See 1Mac 16:34. It fell to the tribe of Ephraim, Joshua 16:3, but was probably taken afterwards by some of the remnant of the Canaanitish nations; for we find it was given by Pharaoh to his son-in-law Solomon, 1 Kings 9:16, which proves that it had got out of the possession of the Israelites previously to the days of Solomon.