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People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Lachish · Libnah (JOS 10:29)
OET-LV And_ YHWH _he/it_gave DOM Lākīsh in_the_hand_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_he_captured_it in_the_day the_second and_he_struck_it_down to_the_mouth_of the_sword and_DOM every_of the_living_creatures who was_in_it according_to_all that he_had_done to_Liⱱnāh.
OET (OET-RV) On the second day of the battle, Yahweh helped Yisrael defeat Lakish, and they captured it and killed everyone in the city like they had done to Livnah.
Joshua defeated seven other important towns in Southern Canaan.
Here is another possible section heading:
Israel defeated the southern towns
And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel,
Yahweh gave the Israelites victory over Lachish.
Yahweh helped the Israelites capture Lachish City.
And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel: The clause the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel is similar to verse 10:30a.
Here is another way to translate this phrase:
Yahweh enabled the Israelite army to defeat the people of the town of Lachish.
and Joshua captured it on the second day. He put all the people to the sword,
Joshua captured it on the second day of the battle, and killed the people in it with the sword.
On the second day they defeated the city, and killed the people in it.
and Joshua captured it on the second day: The clause Joshua captured it on the second day indicates that it took two days for Joshua and his army to defeat the town of Lachish, unlike the first two towns, which they defeated in only one day.
He put all the people to the sword: The clause put all the people to the sword is a Hebrew idiom. This is the same wording as the clauses in 10:28b and 10:30b. It is recommended that you translate it in a similar way.
The king of Lachish is not mentioned because he was one of the five kings who led the battle against the Gibeonites. Joshua killed him by the cave at Makkedah (10:23, 26).
just as he had done to Libnah.
He spared no one, as he did at Libnah.
They killed everybody there, as they did at Libnah City.
just as he had done to Libnah: The clause as he had done to Libnah refers to what Joshua did to the people of Libnah. It may be more natural in some languages to make this information explicit. For example:
Joshua killed all the people of Lachish, as he had killed all the people in Libnah
Note 1 topic: translate-ordinal
בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשֵּׁנִ֔י
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_gave YHWH DOM Lākīsh in,the_hand_of Yisrael and,he,captured_it in_the=day the=second and,he,struck_it_down to_[the],mouth_of sword and=DOM all/each/any/every the=living_creatures which/who [was]_in,it according,to_all which/who he/it_had_made to,Libnah )
If your language does not use ordinal numbers, you can use a cardinal number here or an equivalent expression. Alternate translation: [on day two] or [the next day]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
וְאֶת־כָּל־הַנֶּ֖פֶשׁ אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֑הּ
and=DOM (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_gave YHWH DOM Lākīsh in,the_hand_of Yisrael and,he,captured_it in_the=day the=second and,he,struck_it_down to_[the],mouth_of sword and=DOM all/each/any/every the=living_creatures which/who [was]_in,it according,to_all which/who he/it_had_made to,Libnah )
See how you translated this same expression in Joshua 10:28. Alternate translation: [and every person who was in it]
OET-LV And_ YHWH _he/it_gave DOM Lākīsh in_the_hand_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_he_captured_it in_the_day the_second and_he_struck_it_down to_the_mouth_of the_sword and_DOM every_of the_living_creatures who was_in_it according_to_all that he_had_done to_Liⱱnāh.
OET (OET-RV) On the second day of the battle, Yahweh helped Yisrael defeat Lakish, and they captured it and killed everyone in the city like they had done to Livnah.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.
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