JOSHUA 10:37 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.”
Hebron and its dependent towns destroyed — They left no survivors (הִשְׁאִיר שָׂרִיד), according to the devotion to destruction (כַּחֲרֵם) as he had done to Eglon. Joshua destroyed it and every person in it. Hebron, home to the mighty Anakim (cf. Numbers 13), is completely destroyed. The phrase 'according to the devotion to destruction' reinforces the theological character of the conquest—it is not mere military victory but the implementation of the divine ban.
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