And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass, at the time of the going down of the sun,.... Which was the time fixed by the law of God for taking down bodies that were hanged, Deu 21:23,
that Joshua commanded, and they took…
Adam Clarke
Smote - slew - and hanged them on five trees - Hanging alive seems a barbarous custom: among the Hebrews, criminals were first deprived of life; this was the debt required by justice: then they were…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Joshua smote them The actual execution of the kings he reserved for his own hands.
hanged them "Hongide upon fiue stokkis," Wyclif; or suspended their bodies after death. Comp. Deu 21:23; Jos 8:29. In…
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