¹⁹ but don’t stay there yourselves. Instead, pursue your enemies and attack them from behind. Don’t allow them to enter their cities, because the Lord your God has delivered them into your control.”

²⁰ Now it came about that after Joshua and the Israelis had finished the battle,^[a] destroying and scattering their survivors, who retreated into their fortified cities, ²¹ the entire army returned safely to Joshua’s encampment at Makkedah. No one could speak so much as a single word against any of the Israelis.