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Joshua 10:20

Joshua 10:20
And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace,.... Sound and well, as not one killed or missing, so not one wounded, as the Vulgate Latin version,"sound and in full number:"…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Joshua 10:15-27

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

the rest i.e. broken remnants of the fugitives.

fenced cities "the strengthid citees," Wyclif, = the fortified towns of great strength and impregnable position. Comp. Num 32:17; Deu 3:5; Deu 9:1; Jos…