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He also learned that the Gibeonites had signed a peace treaty with Israel. </span><span class="v6_10_2"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.2" class="v6_10_2">2</span>This frightened Adonizedek and his people. They knew that Gibeon was a large town, as big as the towns that had kings, and even bigger than the town of Ai had been. And all of the men of Gibeon were warriors. </span><span class="v6_10_3"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.3" class="v6_10_3">3</span>So Adonizedek sent messages to the kings of four other towns: King Hoham of Hebron, King Piram of Jarmuth, King Japhia of Lachish, and King Debir of Eglon. The messages said, </span><span class="v6_10_4"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.4" class="v6_10_4">4</span>“The Gibeonites have signed a peace treaty with Joshua and the Israelites. Come and help me attack Gibeon!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_5"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.5" class="v6_10_5">5</span>When these five Amorite kings called their armies together and attacked Gibeon, </span><span class="v6_10_6"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.6" class="v6_10_6">6</span>the Gibeonites sent a message to the Israelite camp at Gilgal: “Joshua, please come and rescue us! The Amorite kings from the hill country have joined together and are attacking us. We are your servants, so don't let us down. Please hurry!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_7"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.7" class="v6_10_7">7</span>Joshua and his army, including his best warriors, left Gilgal. </span><span class="v6_10_8"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.8" class="v6_10_8">8</span>“Joshua,” the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said, “don't be afraid of the Amorites. They will run away when you attack, and I will help you defeat them.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_9"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.9" class="v6_10_9">9</span>Joshua marched all night from Gilgal to Gibeon and made a surprise attack on the Amorite camp. </span><span class="v6_10_10"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.10" class="v6_10_10">10</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> made the enemy panic, and the Israelites started killing them right and left. They<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.10.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> chased the Amorite troops up the road to Beth-Horon and kept on killing them, until they reached the towns of Azekah and Makkedah.<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.10.10!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v6_10_11"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.11" class="v6_10_11">11</span>And while these troops were going down through Beth-Horon Pass,<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.10.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the <span class="nd">Lord</span> made huge hailstones fall on them all the way to Azekah. More of the enemy soldiers died from the hail than from the Israelite weapons.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_12"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.12-Josh.10.13" class="v6_10_12">12-13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.10.12-Josh.10.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span> was helping the Israelites defeat the Amorites that day. So about noon, Joshua prayed to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> loud enough for the Israelites to hear:</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v6_10_12">“Our <span class="nd">Lord</span>, make the sun stop</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v6_10_12">in the sky over Gibeon,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v6_10_12">and the moon stand still</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v6_10_12">over Aijalon Valley.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.10.12-Josh.10.13!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v6_10_12">So the sun and the moon</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v6_10_12">stopped and stood still</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v6_10_12">until Israel defeated its enemies.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="m"><span class="v6_10_12">This poem can be found in <span class="bk">The Book of Jashar</span>.<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.10.12-Josh.10.13!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> The sun stood still and didn't go down for about a whole day. </span><span class="v6_10_14"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.14" class="v6_10_14">14</span>Never before and never since has the <span class="nd">Lord</span> done anything like that for someone who prayed. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> was really fighting for Israel.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_15"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.15" class="v6_10_15">15</span>After the battle, Joshua and the Israelites went back to their camp at Gilgal.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Joshua Kills the Five Enemy Kings</h3><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_16"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.16" class="v6_10_16">16</span>While the enemy soldiers were running from the Israelites, the five enemy kings ran away and hid in a cave near Makkedah. </span><span class="v6_10_17"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.17" class="v6_10_17">17</span>Joshua's soldiers told him, “The five kings have been found in a cave near Makkedah.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_18"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.18" class="v6_10_18">18</span>Joshua answered, “Roll some big stones over the mouth of the cave and leave a few soldiers to guard it. </span><span class="v6_10_19"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.19" class="v6_10_19">19</span>But you and everyone else must keep going after the enemy troops, because they will be safe if they reach their walled towns. Don't let them get away! The <span class="nd">Lord</span> our God is helping us get rid of them.” </span><span class="v6_10_20"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.20" class="v6_10_20">20</span>So Joshua and the Israelites almost wiped out the enemy soldiers. Only a few safely reached their walled towns.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_21"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.21" class="v6_10_21">21</span>The Israelite army returned to their camp at Makkedah, where Joshua was waiting for them. No one around there dared say anything bad about the Israelites. </span><span class="v6_10_22"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.22" class="v6_10_22">22</span>Joshua told his soldiers, “Now, move the rocks from the entrance to the cave and bring those five kings to me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_23"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.23" class="v6_10_23">23</span>The soldiers opened the entrance to the cave and brought out the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon. </span><span class="v6_10_24"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.24" class="v6_10_24">24</span>After Joshua had called the army together, he forced the five kings to lie down on the ground. Then he called his officers forward and told them, “You fought these kings along with me, so put your feet on their necks.” The officers did this, </span><span class="v6_10_25"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.25" class="v6_10_25">25</span>and Joshua continued, “Don't ever be afraid or discouraged. Be brave and strong. This is what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will do to all your enemies.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_26"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.26" class="v6_10_26">26</span>Joshua killed the five kings and told his men to hang each body on a tree. Then at sunset </span><span class="v6_10_27"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.27" class="v6_10_27">27</span>he told some of his troops, “Take the bodies down and throw them into the cave where the kings were found. Cover the entrance to the cave with big rocks.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_27">Joshua's troops obeyed his orders, and those rocks are still there.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Joshua Continues the Fighting</h3><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_28"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.28" class="v6_10_28">28</span>Later that day, Joshua captured Makkedah and killed its king and everyone else in the town, just as he had done at Jericho.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_29"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.29" class="v6_10_29">29</span>Joshua and his army left Makkedah and attacked the town of Libnah. </span><span class="v6_10_30"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.30" class="v6_10_30">30</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> let them capture the town and its king, and they killed the king and everyone else, just as they had done at Jericho.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_31"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.31" class="v6_10_31">31</span>Joshua then led his army to Lachish, and they set up camp around the town. They attacked, </span><span class="v6_10_32"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.32" class="v6_10_32">32</span>and the next day the <span class="nd">Lord</span> let them capture the town. They killed everyone, as they had done at Libnah. </span><span class="v6_10_33"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.33" class="v6_10_33">33</span>King Horam of Gezer arrived to help Lachish, but Joshua and his troops attacked and destroyed him and his army.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_34"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.34" class="v6_10_34">34</span>From Lachish, Joshua took his troops to Eglon, where they set up camp surrounding the town. They attacked, </span><span class="v6_10_35"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.35" class="v6_10_35">35</span>captured it that same day, then killed everyone, as they had done at Lachish.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_36"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.36" class="v6_10_36">36</span>Joshua and his army left Eglon and attacked Hebron. </span><span class="v6_10_37"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.37" class="v6_10_37">37</span>They captured the town and the nearby villages, then killed everyone, including the king. They destroyed Hebron in the same way they had destroyed Eglon.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_38"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.38" class="v6_10_38">38</span>Joshua and the Israelite army turned and attacked Debir. </span><span class="v6_10_39"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.39" class="v6_10_39">39</span>They captured the town, and its nearby villages. Then they destroyed Debir and killed its king, together with everyone else, just as they had done with Hebron and Libnah.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_10_40"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.40" class="v6_10_40">40</span>Joshua captured towns everywhere in the land: In the central hill country and the foothills to the west, in the Southern Desert and the region that slopes down toward the Dead Sea. Whenever he captured a town, he would kill the king and everyone else, as the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God of Israel had commanded. </span><span class="v6_10_41"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.41" class="v6_10_41">41</span>Joshua wiped out towns from Kadesh-Barnea to Gaza, everywhere in the region of Goshen,<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.10.41!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and as far north as Gibeon. </span><span class="v6_10_42"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.10.42-Josh.10.43" class="v6_10_42">42-43</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> fought on Israel's side, so Joshua and the Israelite army were able to capture these kings and take their land. They fought one battle after another, then they went back to their camp at Gilgal after capturing all that land.</span></p></div> </div> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jerusalem: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Jerusalem was not an Israelite city at this time.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">They: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “The <char style="nd">Lord</char>.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Makkedah: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A total distance of about 40 kilometers.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Beth-Horon Pass: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A three-kilometer long, steeply-sloping valley between the towns of Upper Beth-Horon and Lower Beth-Horon.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.12,13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Aijalon Valley: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A valley southwest of Beth-Horon Pass.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.12,13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Book of Jashar: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This book may have been a collection of ancient war songs.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.41 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Goshen: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A region between the hill country of Judah and the desert further south. 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