The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
The verse stands in a roll of the kings and places overthrown in battle before the land was divided for Israel. In that roll the king of Jerusalem is counted as one and the king of Hebron as one, two separate defeated kings. The roll itself belongs to the larger account in Joshua 11-21 of the dividing and settling of the Promised Land among the tribes.
The register of defeated kings is part of God giving Israel the inheritance He had promised. That same section exposes Israel's lack of faith and slowness in taking possession. Yet it ends with the assurance that not aught of any good thing which God had spoken failed. The Jabin connected with this record is not the Jabin named in Judges 4:2, for Jabin was a recurring name among the kings of Canaan.
The verse stands in a roll of the kings and places overthrown in battle before the land was divided for Israel. In that roll the king of Jerusalem is counted as one and the king of Hebron as one, two separate defeated kings. The roll itself belongs to the larger account in Joshua 11-21 of the dividing and settling of the Promised Land among the tribes.
The register of defeated kings is part of God giving Israel the inheritance He had promised. That same section exposes Israel's lack of faith and slowness in taking possession. Yet it ends with the assurance that not aught of any good thing which God had spoken failed. The Jabin connected with this record is not the Jabin named in Judges 4:2, for Jabin was a recurring name among the kings of Canaan.