John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 10:39

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, etc.] For this also was a royal city, and had others dependent on it; and therefore must lie further from Hebron than before suggested; and indeed Burchard f208 says it was five or six miles from it, and another writer f209 says ten miles: and they smote them with the edge of the sword; the inhabitants of Debir, and the other cities adjacent to it; and utterly destroyed all the souls that [were] therein, he left none remaining; and yet it seems this city recovered again, and was reinhabited, and after the death of Joshua was taken by Othniel, (<070111>Judges 1:11-13); unless, as before observed, with respect to Hebron, there is there a more particular account of the taking of it at this time: as he had done to Hebron, so did he to Debir, and to the king thereof, as he had done also to Libnah and her king; that is, slew them.

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