Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
But this leaves the words `etsem (OT:6106) `ad (OT:5704) unexplained, as `etsem
(OT:6106) never occurs in any other case where the formula "until this day" is used
with the simple meaning that a thing had continued to the writer's own time. hazeh
(OT:2088) hayowm (OT:3117) `etsem (OT:6106) expresses the thought that the day
referred to was the very same day about which the author was writing, and no other
(see Josh 5:11; Gen 7:13; 17:23; Ex 12:17, etc.). If, therefore, it has any meaning at
all in the present instance, we must connect the whole clause with the one preceding,
and even construe it as a relative clause: "where they (the kings) had hidden
themselves, and they (the Israelites) had placed large stones at the mouth of the cave
until that very day" (on which the kings were fetched out and executed).
Joshua 10:28-39
And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and
the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he
let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of
Jericho.
Further prosecution of the victory, by the conquest of the fortified towns of the south,
into which those who escaped the sword of the Israelites had thrown themselves.
Verse 28. On the same day on which the five kings were impaled, Joshua took
Makkedah (see at v. 10), and smote the town and its king with the edge of the sword,
banning the town and all the persons in it, i.e., putting all the inhabitants to death
(many MSS and some editions adopt the reading 'otaah (OT:853) for 'otaam
(OT:853), as
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