Josue 11:20

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Domini enim sententia fuerat, ut indurarentur corda eorum, et pugnarent contra Israël, et caderent, et non mererentur ullam clementiam, ac perirent, sicut præceperat Dominus Moysi.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Scribes ea super postes et januas domus tuæ,

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Domini enim sententia fuerat, ut indurarentur corda eorum, et pugnarent contra Israel et caderent et non mererentur ullam clementiam ac perirent, sicut praeceperat Dominus Moysi.

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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.