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Webster's Bible Translation

Joshua 10:17

And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Adonizedek;   Makkedah;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Adoni-Zedec;   Gibeon;   Hoham;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Makkedah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amorites;   Hoham;   Japhia;   Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Adoni-Bezek;   Adoni-Zedek;   Israel;   Joshua;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Adonizedec ;   Eglon ;   Gibeon ;   Hoham ;   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, Book of;   Palestine;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Adonizedek;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hoham;   Jebusites;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
It was reported to Joshua: “The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”
Hebrew Names Version
It was told Yehoshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
King James Version
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.
Lexham English Bible
And it was told to Joshua, saying, "The five kings were found hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
English Standard Version
And it was told to Joshua, "The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
New Century Version
but someone found them hiding in the cave at Makkedah and told Joshua.
New English Translation
Joshua was told, "The five kings have been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah."
Amplified Bible
And Joshua was told, "The five kings have been found and are hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
New American Standard Bible
And it was told to Joshua, saying, "The five kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And it was tolde Ioshua, saying, The fiue Kings are found hid in a caue at Makkedah.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then it was told Joshua, saying, "The five kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
Contemporary English Version
Joshua's soldiers told him, "The five kings have been found in a cave near Makkedah."
Complete Jewish Bible
and it was reported to Y'hoshua that the five kings had been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah.
Darby Translation
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings have been found, hid in the cave at Makkedah.
Easy-to-Read Version
but someone found them hiding in that cave. Joshua learned about this.
George Lamsa Translation
And Joshua was told, The five kings have been found hidden in the cave of Makkar.
Good News Translation
Someone found them, and Joshua was told where they were hiding.
Literal Translation
And it was told to Joshua, saying, the five kings have been found hidden in a cave at Makkedah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then was it tolde Iosua: We haue foude the fyue kynges hyd in the caue at Makeda.
American Standard Version
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
Bible in Basic English
And word was given to Joshua that the five kings had been taken in a hole in the rock at Makkedah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And it was tolde Iosuah [of one] saying, The fiue kinges are founde hyd in a caue which is at Makeda.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it was told Joshua, saying: 'The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.'
King James Version (1611)
And it was told Ioshua, saying, The fiue kings are found hid in a caue at Makkedah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings have been found hid in the cave that is in Makeda.
English Revised Version
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
Berean Standard Bible
And Joshua was informed: "The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And it was teld to Josue, that fyue kyngis weren foundun hid in the denne of the citee of Maceda.
Young's Literal Translation
and it is declared to Joshua, saying, `The five kings have been found hidden in a cave at Makkedah.'
Update Bible Version
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
World English Bible
It was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
New King James Version
And it was told Joshua, saying, "The five kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
New Living Translation
When Joshua heard that they had been found,
New Life Bible
Joshua was told, "The five kings have been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah."
New Revised Standard
And it was told Joshua, "The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it was told Joshua, saying, - The five kings are found, hid in a cave at Makkedah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And it was told Josue, that the five kings were found hid in a cave of the city of Maceda.
Revised Standard Version
And it was told Joshua, "The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makke'dah."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
It was told Joshua, saying, "The five kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah."

Contextual Overview

15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. 16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah. 17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah. 18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them: 19 And stay you not, [but] pursue your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand. 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 [who] remained of them entered into fortified cities. 21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. 22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings to me out of the cave. 23 And they did so, and brought those five kings to him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, [and] the king of Eglon. 24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

This information brought to Joshua, is an evidence that there were those of the country, who knew the holes and fastnesses of it, that were in his interests. And the care Joshua took to secure them there, as it is an instance of his policy and presence of mind, even in the heat of action; so, in the success of their project, it shews how they who think to hide themselves from God, not only deceive, but destroy themselves. Their refuge of lies will but bind them over to God's judgment.

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:23 - General Isaiah 24:22 - they shall Revelation 6:15 - hid

Cross-References

Genesis 34:2
And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it was told Joshua,.... Either by some of his own people, or by some of the inhabitants of the land in his interest, who had observed it:

saying, the five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah: this seems to make it appear that they were others, and not Joshua's soldiers, that found them; for had they, no doubt they would have seized them, and brought them before him, or slain them, unless they chose first to know his will concerning them, next expressed.


 
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