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General Information:

All the Canaanite kings attack Joshua and the nation of Israel.

a great number of soldiers, in number like the sand on the seashore

No one can count the grains of sand on the seashore. This exaggeration emphasizes the very large number of soldiers that these kings assembled. AT: "such a great number of soldiers that there appeared to be as many of them as there are grains of sand on the seashore" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole)

Merom

This is the name of a place. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names)