Joshua 10:29 - The Message29-30 Joshua, all Israel with him, moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah. God gave Libnah to Israel. They captured city and king and massacred the lot. No survivors. Libnah’s king got the same treatment as Jericho’s king. Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 176929 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah: Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition29 Then Joshua and all Israel went from Makkedah to Libnah and attacked Libnah. Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)29 And Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah: Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible29 Then Joshua along with all Israel moved on from Makkedah to Libnah. They attacked Libnah. Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version29 Then he went on, with all of Israel, from Makkedah to Libnah, and he fought against it. Ver Capítulo |
The Rabshakeh left and found that the king of Assyria had pulled up stakes from Lachish and was now fighting against Libnah. Then Sennacherib heard that Tirhakah king of Cush was on his way to fight against him. So he sent another envoy with orders to deliver this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: “Don’t let that god that you think so much of keep stringing you along with the line, ‘Jerusalem will never fall to the king of Assyria.’ That’s a barefaced lie. You know the track record of the kings of Assyria—country after country laid waste, devastated. And what makes you think you’ll be an exception? Take a good look at these wasted nations, destroyed by my ancestors; did their gods do them any good? Look at Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, the people of Eden at Tel Assar. Ruins. And what’s left of the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of Sepharvaim, of Hena, of Ivvah? Bones.”
Edom continues in revolt against Judah right up to the present. Even little Libnah revolted at that time. The evidence accumulated: Since Jehoram had abandoned God, the God of his ancestors, God was abandoning him. He even went so far as to build pagan sacred shrines in the mountains of Judah. He brazenly led Jerusalem away from God, seducing the whole country.