What Does Joshua 10:20 Mean?

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“had made an end”

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)

“And it came to pass when Joshua”

jehoshua (i.e., joshua), the jewish leader

“and the children”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

“of slaying”

to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)

“slaughter”

a blow (in 2 chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication, a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence

“great”

great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent

“them with a very”

properly, vehemence, i.e., (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or

as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)

“till they were consumed”

to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive

“that the rest”

a survivor

“which remained”

properly, to puncture, i.e., (figuratively through the idea of slipping out) to escape or survive

they (only used when emphatic)

“of them entered”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“cities”

a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)

“into fenced”

a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender