Joshua did to them as Yahweh bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
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Joshua did to them as Yahweh bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
And Joshua did to them just as Yahweh had said to him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
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Joshua did to them as Yahweh bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.
Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.
And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
And Joshua did unto them as Jehovah bade him: he hocked their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
And Ioshua did vnto them as the Lord bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their charets with fire.
And he did as the Lord had commanded him, he hamstringed their horses and burned their chariots.
and Joshua doth to them as Jehovah said to him; their horses he hath houghed, and their chariots burnt with fire.
and Joshua does to them as YHWH commanded to him; he has hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
Joshua did to them just as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung the horses and burned the chariots.
And Joshua did to them just as Yahweh had said to him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
And Joshua did to them as Jehovah had said to him: he houghed their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
Joshua did to them as the LORD told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
And Joshua did to them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Afterwards Joshua did what the Lord had ordered: he crippled the horses and burned the chariots.
And Joshua did to them as the Lord had said to him; he had the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.
And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him; he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is עִקֵּ֔ר to pluck up H6131 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
עִקֵּ֔ר to pluck up H6131 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 20 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Joshua 11:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיַּ֤עַשׂ לָהֶם֙ יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר אָֽמַר ל֖וֹ יְהוָ֑ה אֶת סוּסֵיהֶ֣ם עִקֵּ֔ר וְאֶת מַרְכְּבֹתֵיהֶ֖ם שָׂרַ֥ף בָּאֵֽשׁ
Joshua did to them as Yahweh bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ποιέω αὐτός ἰησοῦς ὅς τρόπος ἐντέλλομαι αὐτός κύριος ὁ ἵππος αὐτός νευροκοπέω καί ὁ ἅρμα αὐτός ἐνπίμπρημι ἐν πῦρ
And Joshua did to them, as the Lord commanded him: he houghed their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וַעֲבַד לְהוֹן יְהוֹשֻׁעַ כְּמָא דַאֲמַר לֵיהּ יְיָ יַת סוּסְוָתְהוֹן עִקַר וְיַת רְתִיכֵיהוֹן אוֹקֵד בְּנוּרָא:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻâqar (“to pluck up”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 11:9 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.