Joshua 11

Joshua 11:4

Sand] Hyperbolees much used in Scripture. So Gen. XXII. 17. and XLI. 49. Iudg. VII. 12. and Ch. XX. 16. 1 Sam. XIII. 5. 2 Sam. I. 23. 1 King. I. 40. and IV. 20, 29. 2 King. XIX. 24. 1 Chron. XII. 8. and XVI. 33. 2 Chron. I. 9. and XXVIII. 9. Job. XX. 6. and XXII. 24. and XL. 23. Psal. VI. 6. Esay XXXIV. 3, 5, 7, 9. and XLVIII. 19. Jer. IV. 24. and XV. 8. Ioel. III. 18. Amos II. 9. and IX. 13. Iohn XXI. 25.

Joshua 11:18

A long time] After the battel at the waters of Merom, Ioshua did make warre a long time with all those Northern Kings in Canaan: about sixe years; as is gathered out of Ch. XIV. 6,—15.