Holy Scripture
Joshua 10:36
A church father on this verse
“In like manner, there is also Hebron, which they say means "union" or "marriage." But the union of our soul was at first with a wicked man and a most evil husband, the devil. When that one was destroyed and abolished, the soul was "freed from the law" of that former wicked man and united with a good and lawful one, hi…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
36And Joshua and all Israel with him departed to Hebron, and encamped about it.
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34And Joshua and all Israel with him departed from Lachish to Adullam, and he besieged it and took it.
35And the Lord delivered it into the hand of Israel; and he took it on that day, and slew the inhabitants with the edge of the sword, and slew everything breathing in it, as they did to Lachish.
— Joshua 10:36 —
37And he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the living creatures that were in it; there was no one preserved: they destroyed it and all things in it, as they did to Adullam.
38And Joshua and all Israel returned to Debir; and they encamped about it;