Joshua 10:31
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New International Version (©2011)
Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Libnah to Lachish; he took up positions against it and attacked it.

New Living Translation (©2007)
From Libnah, Joshua and the Israelites went to Lachish and attacked it.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and laid siege to it and fought against it.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish, and they camped by it and fought against it.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
From Libnah, Joshua and all Israel with him crossed to Lachish. They laid siege to it and attacked it.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then Joshua and all of Israel passed from Libnah to Lachish, camped near it, and attacked it.

NET Bible (©2006)
Joshua and all Israel marched from Libnah to Lachish. He deployed his troops and fought against it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Joshua and all Israel marched from Libnah to Lachish, camped there, and attacked it.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:

American King James Version
And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:

American Standard Version
And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:

Douay-Rheims Bible
From Lebna he passed unto Lachis, with all Israel: and investing it with his army, besieged it.

Darby Bible Translation
And Joshua passed, and all Israel with him, from Libnah to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.

English Revised Version
And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:

Webster's Bible Translation
And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:

World English Bible
Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.

Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua passeth over, and all Israel with him, from Libnah to Lachish, and encampeth against it, and fighteth against it;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:28-43 Joshua made speed in taking these cities. See what a great deal of work may be done in a little time, if we will be diligent, and improve our opportunities. God here showed his hatred of the idolatries and other abominations of which the Canaanites had been guilty, and shows us how great the provocation was, by the greatness of the destruction brought upon them. Here also was typified the destruction of all the enemies of the Lord Jesus, who, having slighted the riches of his grace, must for ever feel the weight of his wrath. The Lord fought for Israel. They could not have gotten the victory, if God had not undertaken the battle. We conquer when God fights for us; if he be for us, who can be against us?

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 31. - And Joshua passed. No indication of time is given in the rest of this chapter. The campaign was probably an affair of some weeks, though none of the cities could have made a prolonged resistance.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish,.... Which, according to Bunting (d), was eight miles from Libnah, and twenty miles from Jerusalem to the southwest of this city; see Joshua 10:5,

and encamped against it, and fought against it; for it seems this city stood out, and would not surrender at once, which obliged Joshua to encamp about it, and besiege it.

(d) Travels of the Patriarchs, &c. p. 96.

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Joshua Conquers Southern Palestine
29Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah: 30And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did to the king thereof as he did to the king of Jericho. 31And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it: …

Joshua 10:30 The LORD also gave that city and its king into Israel's hand. The city and everyone in it Joshua put to the sword. He left no survivors there. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Joshua 10:32 The LORD gave Lachish into Israel's hands, and Joshua took it on the second day. The city and everyone in it he put to the sword, just as he had done to Libnah.
2 Kings 14:19 They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there.
Isaiah 37:8 When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.