Joshua 10:22 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Joshua 10:22

20 Then it happened, while Joshua and the children of Israel made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they had finished, that those who escaped entered fortified cities.

21 And all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua at Makkedah, in peace. ^aNo one moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

22 Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings to me from the cave.”

23 And they did so, and brought out those five kings to him from the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

24 So it was, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, “Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.” And they drew near and ^aput their feet on their necks.

25 Then Joshua said to¹ them, ^a“Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage, for ^bthus the Lord will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.”

26 And afterward Joshua struck¹ them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they ^awere hanging on the trees until evening.

27 So it was at the time of the going down of the sun that Joshua commanded, and they ^atook them down from the trees, cast them into the cave where they had been hidden, and laid large stones against the cave’s mouth, which remain until this very day.

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THE FIVE KINGS HANGED. (Joshua 10:16-27)

these five kings . . . hid themselves in a cave—Hebrew, "the cave."

at Makkedah—The pursuit was continued, without interruption, to Makkedah at the foot of the western mountains, where Joshua seems to have halted with the main body of his troops while a detachment was sent forward to scour the country in pursuit of the remaining stragglers, a few of whom succeeded in reaching the neighboring cities. The last act, probably the next day, was the disposal of the prisoners, among whom the five kings were consigned to the infamous doom of being slain (Deuteronomy 20:16-17); and then their corpses were suspended on five trees till the evening.

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