Joshua 10:17

And Joshua was informed: “The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”

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KJV

And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.

ASV

And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.

YLT

and it is declared to Joshua, saying, `The five kings have been found hidden in a cave at Makkedah.'

DBT

And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings have been found, hid in the cave at Makkedah.

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And it was told Joshua,.... Either by some of his own people, or by some of the inhabitants of the land in his interest, who had observed it: saying, the five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah: this seems to make it appear that they were others, and not Joshua's soldiers, that found them; for had they, no doubt they would have seized them, and brought them before him, or slain them, unless they chose first to know his will concerning them, next expressed.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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For if the armed host of the Lord was represented by the trumpets of the priests, we may see in Jericho a type of the overthrow of the world by the preaching of the gospel. And to pass over endless details (for it is not my purpose now to unfold all the mysteries of the Old Testament), five kings who previously reigned in the land of promise and opposed the gospel army were overcome in battle with Joshua.

Jerome· Against Jovinianus 1.21, 420patristic

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 (De 20:16, 17); and then their corpses were suspended on five trees till the evening.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Now, First, It looked great for Joshua to say, Sun, stand thou still. His ancestor Joseph had indeed dreamed that the sun and moon did homage to him; but who would have thought that, after it had been fulfilled in the figure, it should be again fulfilled in the letter to one of his posterity?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Joshua 8:23
But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

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PersonConquestJoshuaMoses' minister and successor, one of the two faithful spies; he led Israel across Jordan, around Jericho, and through the conques…

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Joshua Commands the Sun to Stand Still — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

Joshua — The entry narrative — Israel crosses the Jordan, takes the Land through three conquest campaigns, and renews covenant at Shechem. The hinge between Torah's promises and the historical record of those promises unfolding.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Joshua himself at least in part (24:26 — ‘Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God’); later editorial framing traditional
Date: Events c. 1400 BC (early) or 1230 BC (late); compilation across the early-monarchy period