Joshua 10:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.

Joshua 10:17 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-27)

It was a brave appearance, no doubt, which the five kings made when they took the field for the reducing of Gibeon, and a brave army they had following them; but they were all routed, put into disorder first, and then brought to destruction by the hail-stones. And now Joshua thought, his work being done, he might go with his army into quarters of refreshment. Accordingly it was resolved, perhaps i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

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 neighborin…