Księga Jozuego 11:5

Nowa Biblia Gdańska

Owi królowie się zmówili, przybyli i razem się rozłożyli u wód Meromu, by stoczyć walkę z Israelitami.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
A tak się wszytcy ci królowie sciągnęli, a społu położyli obozem u wód Merom, aby zwiedli bitwę z Izraelity.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
A zgromadziwszy się wszyscy oni królowie przyszli, i położyli się pospołu obozem u wód Merom, aby zwiedli bitwę z Izraelem.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Królowie ci połączyli się i stanęli obozem nad wodami Merom, aby walczyć przeciw Izraelowi.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
A zgromadziwszy się wszyscy oni królowie przyszli, i położyli się pospołu obozem u wód Merom, aby zwiedli bitwę z Izraelem.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
A gdy wszyscy ci królowie zgromadzili się, przybyli i razem rozbili obóz nad wodami Meromu, aby walczyć przeciwko Izraelowi.

Biblia Warszawska
Wszyscy ci królowie skupili swoje siły, wyruszyli i stanęli razem obozem nad wodami Merom, aby walczyć przeciwko Izraelowi.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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.

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.