Matthew Poole Commentary - Joshua 11:13 - 11:13

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Joshua 11:13 - 11:13


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In their strength, Heb. with (for so this preposition is oft used, as Exo_35:12 Lev_2:2 Eze_16:37, &c.) their fence or fences, walls or bulwarks, i.e. which were not utterly ruined together with their walls in the taking of them.



Save Hazor only; which though taken by the Israelites, was not so much destroyed as other places were.



That did Joshua burn, because this city began the war; and being the chief and royal city, might renew the war, if the Canaanites should ever seize upon it.