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Joshua 10:27

Joshua 10:27
And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And that day Joshua took Makkedah,.... Some say it was the day on which the sun stood still; but it seems to mean the day in which the five kings were hanged:

and smote it with the edge of the…

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

at the time of the going down of the sun According to the strict command in Deu 21:23.

into the cave wherein they had been hid "Into the spelonk, in the which thei lorkiden," Wyclif, which then became…

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