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26 Then afterward Joshua struck them [with his sword] and put them to death, and he hung them on five trees; and they [a]hung on the trees until evening. 27 At sunset Joshua gave a command, and they took the bodies down from the trees and threw them into the cave where the kings had hidden themselves, and placed large stones over the mouth of the cave, [where they remain] to this very day.

28 Now Joshua captured Makkedah on that day, and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword; he utterly destroyed it and [b]everyone who was in it. He left no survivor. So he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 10:26 See note 8:29.
  2. Joshua 10:28 Lit every soul.

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