Bible Person
Meaning: an orator; a word · Male · 1 cross reference
This Debir entry refers to the king of Eglon in Joshua 10, not to the place-name Debir elsewhere in Scripture. He belongs to the coalition of Canaanite rulers opposing Gibeon and Israel. First appears in Josh 10:3.1
AI summary: This Debir matters because his single cross reference places him among the kings defeated in one of Joshua's major southern victories. The entry helps frame the scale of the coalition gathered against Israel and the completeness of its defeat. Taken together, the material presents this Debir as a defeated Canaanite ruler in the conquest narrative.1
Central Figure
Debir
Meaning: an orator; a word
The king of Eglon, one of the five Canaanitish kings who were hanged by Joshua (Josh.
The king of Eglon, one of the five Canaanitish kings who were hanged by Joshua (Josh. 10:3, 23) after the victory at Gibeon. These kings fled and took refuge in a cave at Makkedah. Here they were kept confined till Joshua returned from the pursuit of their discomfited armies, when he caused them to be brought forth, and “Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees” (26). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.