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Joshua 10:16

The five Amorite kings ran away and hid 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,
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
But those five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at 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 Then Joshua and all Israel returned to the camp at Gilgal. 16 The five Amorite kings ran away and hid in the cave at Makkedah. 17 Joshua was told, "The five kings have been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah." 18 Joshua said, "Roll large stones over the mouth of the cave and post guards in front of it. 19 But don't you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! Don't allow them to retreat to their cities, for the Lord your God is handing them over to you." 20 Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities. 21 Then the whole army safely returned to Joshua at the camp in Makkedah. No one dared threaten the Israelites. 22 Joshua said, "Open the cave's mouth and bring the five kings out of the cave to me." 23 They did as ordered; they brought the five kings out of the cave to him—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon. 24 When they brought the kings out to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the troops who accompanied him, "Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings." So they came up 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 men of Benjamin, however, did not conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites live with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this very day.
2 Samuel 24:18
So Gad went to David that day and told him, "Go up and build an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
Zechariah 9:7
I will take away their abominable religious practices; then those who survive will become a community of believers in our God, like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

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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