Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 10:32

And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that [were] therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

32. which took it on the second day ] Observe: 1. All the other cities seem to have fallen before Joshua at once except Lachish. Of Lachish, and Lachish alone, is it said that he took it on the second day.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Verse 32. Lachish] It appears that this was anciently a very strong place; notwithstanding the people were panic-struck, and the Israelites flushed with success, yet Joshua could not reduce it till the second day, and the king of Assyria afterwards was obliged to raise the siege. See above, and See Clarke on Jos 10:3.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

On the second day; either the day after his first laying of the siege, or after the taking of Makkedah and Libnah.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which he took on the second day,…. Either the second day from the slaughter of the kings, or rather the second day of the encampment or siege; so Kimchi: and

smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that [were] therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah; no mention is made of its king, because he was one of the five kings that had been hanged up; so that at the taking of this city there was no king.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(32) On the second day.With this fact we may connect two other facts of later history. When Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the fenced cities of Judah and took them (2Ki. 18:13), although he laid siege to Lachish, and all his power with him (2Ch. 32:9), he had to abandon the siege (2Ki. 19:8). Again, when Nebuchadnezzar invaded the kingdom of Judah in the reign of Zedekiah, the last king, we read ( Jer. 34:7) of his army fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah, for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah. All these notices of Lachish point to its being a fortress of considerable strength. And the undesigned and indirect agreement of these three passages, which lie so far asunder, is worthy of observation.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

32. On the second day The second day of the siege.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jos 10:32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that [were] therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

Ver. 32. On the second day, ] viz., After he had besieged it. For Joshua took towns faster than did Timotheus the Athenian, into whose toils they were said to come while he slept, till such time as he began to sacrifice to his own net; for then he lost them again as fast. a

a Plut., in Syll.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)