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Complete Jewish Bible

Joshua 10:16

But those five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adoni-Zedek;   Amorites;   Captive;   Cave;   Cowardice;   Debir;   Hebron;   Jerusalem;   Makkedah;   Piram;   Prisoners;   War;   Thompson Chain Reference - Caves;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Adonizedek;   Makkedah;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Adoni-Zedec;   Cave;   Gibeon;   Hoham;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Makkedah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amorites;   Caves;   Hoham;   Japhia;   Joshua, the Book of;   Makkedah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Adoni-Bezek;   Adoni-Zedek;   Cave;   Israel;   Joshua;   Makkedah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Adonizedec ;   Eglon ;   Gibeon ;   Jebusites ;   Lachish ;   Makkedah ;   Sun;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Adonizedek;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Lachish;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Adonize'dek;   Makke'dah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hoham;   Japhia (1);   Joshua (2);   Joshua, Book of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Adonizedek;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Caves in Palestine;   Hoham;   Jebusites;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now the five defeated kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
Hebrew Names Version
These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
King James Version
But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
Lexham English Bible
But these five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
English Standard Version
These five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
New Century Version
During the fight the five kings ran away and hid in a cave near Makkedah,
New English Translation
The five Amorite kings ran away and hid in the cave at Makkedah.
Amplified Bible
Now these five [Amorite] kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
New American Standard Bible
Now these five kings had fled and hidden themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But the fiue Kings fled and were hid in a caue at Makkedah.
Legacy Standard Bible
And these five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
Contemporary English Version
While the enemy soldiers were running from the Israelites, the five enemy kings ran away and hid in a cave near Makkedah.
Darby Translation
And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
Easy-to-Read Version
But during the fight, the five kings ran away. They hid in a cave near Makkedah,
George Lamsa Translation
But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave of Makkar.
Good News Translation
The five Amorite kings, however, had escaped and were hiding in the cave at Makkedah.
Literal Translation
And these five kings fled, and were hidden in a cave at Makkedah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for the fyue kynges, they were fled, and had hyd the selues in the caue at Makeda.
American Standard Version
And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
Bible in Basic English
But these five kings went in flight secretly to a hole in the rock at Makkedah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the fiue kinges fled, and were hyd in a caue at Makeda.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
King James Version (1611)
But these fiue kings fled, and hid themselues in a caue at Makkedah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave that is in Makeda.
English Revised Version
And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
Berean Standard Bible
Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe fyue kyngis fledden, and hidden hem silf in the denne of the citee of Maceda.
Young's Literal Translation
And these five kings flee, and are hidden in a cave at Makkedah,
Update Bible Version
And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
Webster's Bible Translation
But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
World English Bible
These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
New King James Version
But these five kings had fled and hidden themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
New Living Translation
During the battle the five kings escaped and hid in a cave at Makkedah.
New Life Bible
Now these five kings had run away and hidden themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
New Revised Standard
Meanwhile, these five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So these five kings fled, - and hid themselves in a cave, at Makkedah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the five kings were fled, and had hid themselves in a cave of the city of Maceda.
Revised Standard Version
These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makke'dah.
THE MESSAGE
Meanwhile the five kings had hidden in the cave at Makkedah. Joshua was told, "The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now these five kings had fled and hidden themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

Contextual Overview

15 Y'hoshua returned with all Isra'el to the camp at Gilgal. 16 But those five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah, 17 and it was reported to Y'hoshua that the five kings had been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah. 18 Y'hoshua said, "Roll big stones to the mouth of the cave, and put men there to guard them. 19 However, you, don't wait, but keep chasing your enemies, and attack those farthest in the rear. Don't allow them to return to their cities, because Adonai has handed them over to you." 20 After Y'hoshua and the people of Isra'el had finished killing them off in a very great slaughter, till they had been destroyed, and the remaining remnant had entered the fortified cities, 21 all the people returned safely to Y'hoshua at the camp in Makkedah; and no one said a word against any of the people of Isra'el. 22 Then Y'hoshua said, "Open up the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me. 23 They did it; they brought the five kings out to him — the kings of Yerushalayim, Hevron, Yarmut, Lakhish and ‘Eglon. 24 After they had brought the five kings to Y'hoshua, he summoned all the men of Isra'el and said to the commanders of the soldiers who had gone with him, "Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings." They came and put their feet on their necks.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and hid: Psalms 48:4-6, Psalms 139:7-10, Isaiah 2:10-12, Amos 9:2, Revelation 6:15

in a cave: Judges 6:2, 1 Samuel 13:6, 1 Samuel 24:3, 1 Samuel 24:8, Isaiah 2:19-22, Isaiah 24:21, Isaiah 24:22, Micah 7:17

Reciprocal: Joshua 10:22 - General Judges 8:12 - took Psalms 68:12 - Kings Jeremiah 41:9 - because of Gedaliah Ezekiel 17:20 - I will spread

Cross-References

Judges 1:21
The people of Binyamin did not drive out the Y'vusi who inhabited Yerushalayim; rather, the Y'vusi continued living with the people of Binyamin in Yerushalayim, as they do to this day.
2 Samuel 24:18
Gad came to David that day and said to him, "Go, set up an altar to Adonai on the threshing-floor of Aravnah the Y'vusi."
Zechariah 9:7
I will end their eating meat with its blood still in it, snatching the disgusting things from between their teeth." But the surviving remnant will belong to our God; it will be like a clan in Y'hudah; and ‘Ekron will be like a Y'vusi.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But these five kings fled,.... They were not killed by hailstones, nor slain by the sword of the Israelites, but made their escape, being reserved by the providence of God for a more shameful end:

and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah; not in the city of Makkedah, which as yet was not in the hands of Israel, whereas this cave was, as appears by what follows; but it was in some hill, or mountain, near it; in the border of it, as Kimchi expresses it, and where a hill is shown to this day in which it was, as Drusius says.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The thread of the narrative, broken by the four intermediate verses, Joshua 10:12-15, is now resumed from Joshua 10:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 10:16. Hid themselves in a cave — It is very likely that this cave was a fortified place among some rocks; for there were many such places in different parts of Palestine.


 
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