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Brenton's Septuagint

Joshua 11:9

And Joshua did to them, as the Lord commanded him: he houghed their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Canaanites;   Horse;   Houghing;   Jabin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Chariots;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hazor;   Hough;   Jabin;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Joshua the son of nun;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fire;   Jabin;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Army;   Barak;   Jabin;   Syria;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amorites;   Conquest of Canaan;   Hamstring;   Hazor;   Hough;   Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hough;   Israel;   Jabin;   Joshua;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hazor ;   Horse;   Hough, to;   Jabin ;   Merom, Waters of (See Also Jordan, Lake of Huleh);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja'bin;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chariot;   Hock;   Jabin;   Joshua, Book of;   Palestine;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Joshua treated them as the Lord had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.
Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua did to them as the LORD bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
King James Version
And Joshua did unto them as the Lord bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Lexham English Bible
And Joshua did to them as Yahweh commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
English Standard Version
And Joshua did to them just as the Lord said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
New Century Version
Joshua did what the Lord said to do; he crippled their horses and burned their chariots.
New English Translation
Joshua did to them as the Lord had commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.
Amplified Bible
Joshua did to them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung (disabled) their horses and set fire to their chariots.
New American Standard Bible
And Joshua did to them just as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Ioshua did vnto them as the Lorde bade him: he houghed their horses, & burnt their charets with fire.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Joshua did to them as Yahweh had said to him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
Complete Jewish Bible
Y'hoshua did to them what Adonai had ordered — he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.
Darby Translation
And Joshua did to them as Jehovah had said to him: he houghed their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
Easy-to-Read Version
Joshua did what the Lord said to do; he cut the legs of their horses and burned their chariots.
George Lamsa Translation
And Joshua did to them as the LORD had told him: he utterly destroyed their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
Good News Translation
Joshua did to them what the Lord had commanded: he crippled their horses and burned their chariots.
Literal Translation
And Joshua did to them as Jehovah said to him. He hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then dealte Iosua with them as ye LORDE had saide vnto him, & lamed theis horses, & brent their charettes.
American Standard Version
And Joshua did unto them as Jehovah bade him: he hocked their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Bible in Basic English
And Joshua did to them as the Lord had said to him; he had the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iosuah dyd vnto them as the Lorde bad him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their charettes with fire.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him; he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
King James Version (1611)
And Ioshua did vnto them as the Lord bade him: hee houghed their horses, and burnt their charets with fire.
English Revised Version
And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Berean Standard Bible
Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he dide as the Lord comaundide to hym; he hoxide `the horsis of hem, and brente the charis.
Young's Literal Translation
and Joshua doth to them as Jehovah said to him; their horses he hath houghed, and their chariots burnt with fire.
Update Bible Version
And Joshua did to them as Yahweh bade him: he hocked their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Joshua did to them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
World English Bible
Joshua did to them as Yahweh bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
New King James Version
So Joshua did to them as the LORD had told him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
New Living Translation
Then Joshua crippled the horses and burned all the chariots, as the Lord had instructed.
New Life Bible
Joshua did to them as the Lord had told him. He cut the legs of their horses and burned their war-wagons with fire.
New Revised Standard
And Joshua did to them as the Lord commanded him; he hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Joshua did unto them, as Yahweh had said unto him, - their horses, he ham-strung, and, their chariots, burned he up with fire.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he did as the Lord had commanded him, he hamstringed their horses and burned their chariots.
Revised Standard Version
And Joshua did to them as the LORD bade him; he hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Joshua did to them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

Contextual Overview

1 And when Jabis the king of Asor heard, he sent to Jobab king of Maron, and to the king of Symoon, and to the king of Aziph, 2 and to the kings who were by the great Sidon, to the hill country and to Araba opposite Keneroth, and to the plain, and to Phenaeddor, 3 and to the Chananites on the coast eastward, and to the Amorites on the coast, and the Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites in the mountain, and the Evites, and those dwelling under mount Aermon in the land Massyma. 4 And they and their kings with them went forth, as the sand of the sea in multitude, and horses, and very many chariots. 5 And all the kings assembled in person, and came to the same place, and encamped at the waters of Maron to war with Israel. 6 And the Lord said to Joshua, Be not afraid of them, for to-morrow at this time I will put them to flight before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire 7 And Joshua and all the men of war came upon them at the water of Maron suddenly; and they attacked them in the hill country. 8 And the Lord delivered them into the power of Israel; and they smote them and pursued them to great Sidon, and to Maseron, and to the plains of Massoch eastward; and they destroyed them till there was not one of them left that survived. 9 And Joshua did to them, as the Lord commanded him: he houghed their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he houghed, Joshua 11:6, Ezekiel 39:9, Ezekiel 39:10

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 20:1 - horses 2 Samuel 8:4 - chariots 1 Chronicles 18:4 - David Psalms 46:9 - burneth Nahum 2:13 - I will burn

Cross-References

Genesis 10:5
From these were the islands of the Gentiles divided in their land, each according to his tongue, in their tribes and in their nations.
Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Orech, and Archad, and Chalanne, in the land of Senaar.
Genesis 10:20
There were the sons of Cham in their tribes according to their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
Genesis 10:25
And to Heber were born two sons, the name of the one, Phaleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother Jektan.
Genesis 11:1
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
Genesis 11:14
And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
Genesis 11:31
And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he dwelt there.
Genesis 11:32
And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua did unto them as the Lord bade him,.... Namely, in the following instances:

he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire; not consulting his own worldly interest or that of the people of Israel, but the command of God, which he carefully obeyed, and reserved none for himself or them, as David in another case afterwards did; see 2 Samuel 8:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 11:9. He houghed their horses — The Hebrew word עקר akar, which we render to hough or hamstring, signifies to wound, cut, or lop off. It is very likely that it means here, not only an act by which they were rendered useless, but by which they were destroyed; as God had purposed that his people should not possess any cattle of this kind, that a warlike and enterprising spirit might not be cultivated among them; and that, when obliged to defend themselves and their country, they might be led to depend upon God for protection and victory. On the same ground, God had forbidden the kings of Israel to multiply horses, Deuteronomy 17:16. See the note there containing the reasons on which this prohibition was founded.

Burnt their chariots — As these could have been of no use without the horses.


 
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