Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah; and they fought against Libnah.
Parallel translations
- WEB Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.
- KJV Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
- BSB Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.
- NASB Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.
- NLT Then Joshua and the Israelites went to Libnah and attacked it.
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Quick answer
Joshua and Israel move from Makkedah to attack Libnah. The campaign advances city by city.
Overview
The narrative continues the methodical conquest as Israel marches against Libnah next. Each stage shows the steady fulfillment of God's promise to give the land into Israel's hand. The relentless progress portrays the LORD systematically subduing Canaan before His people.
Cross-references & the web
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- Josh 21:13To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah with its suburbs,
- Josh 15:42Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
- Josh 10:28Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
- Josh 8:2You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
- Josh 8:29He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
- Josh 6:21They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
- Josh 12:15the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
- 2 Kgs 19:8So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
- Num 33:20They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.
- 2 Kgs 8:22So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
- Jer 52:1Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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Joshua — the same name as Jesus, 'the LORD saves' — leads God's people into their inheritance, a shadow of the greater Joshua who brings us into the true rest and the promised land that remains.
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