And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof,.... For this also was a royal city, and had others dependent on it; and therefore must lie further from Hebron than before suggested; and indeed Burchard says it was five or six miles from it, and another writer says ten miles:and they smote them with the edge of the sword; the inhabitants of Debir, and the other cities adjacent to it;and utterly destroyed all the souls that [were] therein, he left none remaining; and yet it seems this city recovered again, and was reinhabited, and after the death of Joshua was taken by Othniel, Jud 1:11; unless, as before observed, with respect to Hebron, there is there a more particular account of the taking of it at this time:as he had done to Hebron, so did he to Debir, and to the king thereof,as he had done also to Libnah and her king; that is, slew them.
Apud Masium in loc. Fuller's Pisgah Sight of Palestine, B. 2. c. 13. p.