Joshua 10:33

WEB

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

KJV

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

Commentary

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish,.... Perhaps the rather induced to it, because it had no king to def end it. In Jerom's (e) time it was a village called Gazera, four miles from Nicopolis, or Emmaus, to the north: if this king came before the city was taken, he was not able to raise the siege; and if he came after, and so too late, he fell into the hands of Joshua: and Joshua smote him, and his people, until he had left him none remaining; destroyed him and all his army, so that there were none left to return and relate their unhappy case. (e) De loc. Heb. fol. 92. A.