Joshua 12:12 Meaning and Explanation

Eglon was another of the allied southern cities defeated in that same campaign, while Gezer's king had come up to help Lachish and fell with his army. Each is now numbered among the conquered.

The steady drumbeat of 'one' after each name has a power of its own. It records, without boasting, the thoroughness of God's deliverance. One by one, the obstacles to the promise were removed. The reader is invited to count along and to see, in this patient accounting, the patient faithfulness of God, who overcomes opposition not all at once only, but surely, until His purpose stands complete.