Josua 10:27

Schlachter Bibel

Als aber die Sonne unterging, gebot Josua, daß man sie von den Bäumen nehme und sie in die Höhle werfe, darin sie sich verkrochen hatten; und sie legten große Steine vor den Eingang der Höhle; die sind noch daselbst bis auf den heutigen Tag.

Parallel Translations

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und es geschah zur Zeit des Sonnenuntergangs, da gebot Josua, und man nahm sie von den Bäumen herab und warf sie in die Höhle, wo sie sich versteckt hatten; und man legte große Steine an die Mündung der Höhle, die bis auf diesen selbigen Tag da sind.

Lutherbible (1912)
Da aber die Sonne war untergegangen, gebot er, daß man sie von den Bäumen nähme und würfe sie in die Höhle darin sie sich verkrochen hatten. Und sie legten große Steine vor der Höhle Loch; die sind noch da bis auf diesen Tag.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they took: Joshua 8:29, Deuteronomy 21:23, 2 Samuel 18:17

until this very day: Joshua 4:9, Joshua 7:26

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 3:5 - to cast Galatians 3:13 - Cursed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, Deuteronomy 21:23;

[that] Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees; not from, any respect to them, but that they might not defile the land, as dead bodies in a ceremonial sense did, Deuteronomy 21:23; and this Joshua was the more careful of, as they were just entered into it, and were taking possession of it:

and they cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid; so that what had been their hiding place now became their grave; and according to the Samaritan Chronicle q, the trees also on which they were hanged were cast in with them;

and laid great stones in the cave's mouth: not as a monumental pile, as in the instances of Achan and the king of Ai, Joshua 7:26; but to prevent their carcasses being dragged out, and eaten by wild beasts, as some think; or that they might not be taken out, and buried in a more honourable manner:

[which remain] until this very day; when Joshua was grown old, the writer of this book.

q Apud Hottinger. Smegma. p. 511.