Joshua 10 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Five Kings Attack Gibeon

Jos 10:1Now when it came to the ears of Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, that Joshua had taken Ai, and had given it up to the curse (for as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king); and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them;

Jos 10:2

Jos 10:2He was in great fear, because Gibeon was a great town, like one of the king's towns, greater than Ai, and all the men in it were men of war.

Jos 10:3

Jos 10:3So Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, sent to Hoham, king of Hebron, and to Piram, king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia, king of Lachish, and to Debir, king of Eglon, saying,

Jos 10:4

Jos 10:4Come up to me and give me help, and let us make an attack on Gibeon: for they have made peace with Joshua and the children of Israel.

Jos 10:5

Jos 10:5So the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, were banded together, and went up with all their armies and took up their position before Gibeon and made war against it.

Jos 10:6

Jos 10:6And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, saying, Be not slow to send help to your servants; come up quickly to our support and keep us safe: for all the kings of the Amorites from the hill-country have come together against us.

Jos 10:7

Jos 10:7So Joshua went up from Gilgal with all his army and all his men of war.

Jos 10:8

Jos 10:8And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them, for I have given them into your hands; they will all give way before you.

Jos 10:9

Jos 10:9So Joshua, having come up from Gilgal all night, made a sudden attack on them.

Jos 10:10

Jos 10:10And the Lord made them full of fear before Israel, and they put great numbers of them to death at Gibeon, and went after them by the way going up to Beth-horon, driving them back to Azekah and Makkedah

Jos 10:11

Jos 10:11And in their flight before Israel, on the way down from Beth-horon, the Lord sent down great stones from heaven on them all the way to Azekah, causing their death: those whose death was caused by the stones were more than those whom the children of Israel put to death with the sword.

Jos 10:12

Jos 10:12It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon.

Jos 10:13

Jos 10:13And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.

Jos 10:14

Jos 10:14And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.

Jos 10:15

Jos 10:15And Joshua, with all Israel, went back to the tent-circle at Gilgal.

Victory at Makkedah

Jos 10:16

Jos 10:16But these five kings went in flight secretly to a hole in the rock at Makkedah.

Jos 10:17

Jos 10:17And word was given to Joshua that the five kings had been taken in a hole in the rock at Makkedah.

Jos 10:18

Jos 10:18And Joshua said, Let great stones be rolled against the mouth of the hole, and let men keep watch by it:

Jos 10:19

Jos 10:19But do you, without waiting, go after their army, attacking them from the back; do not let them get into their towns, for the Lord your God has given them into your hands.

Jos 10:20

Jos 10:20Now when Joshua and the children of Israel had come to the end of their war of complete destruction, and had put to death all but a small band who had got safely into the walled towns,

Jos 10:21

Jos 10:21All the people went back to Joshua to the tent-circle at Makkedah in peace: and no one said a word against the children of Israel.

Jos 10:22

Jos 10:22Then Joshua said, Take away the stones from the mouth of the hole in the rock, and make those five kings come out to me.

Jos 10:23

Jos 10:23And they did so, and made those five kings come out of the hole to him, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

Jos 10:24

Jos 10:24And when they had made those kings come out to Joshua, Joshua sent for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, Come near and put your feet on the necks of these kings. So they came near and put their feet on their necks.

Jos 10:25

Jos 10:25And Joshua said to them, Have no fear and do not be troubled; be strong and take heart: for so will the Lord do to all against whom you make war.

Jos 10:26

Jos 10:26Then Joshua had them put to death, hanging them on five trees, where they were till evening.

Jos 10:27

Jos 10:27And when the sun went down, they were taken down from the trees, by Joshua's orders, and put into the hole where they had gone to be safe; and great stones were placed at the mouth of the hole, where they are to this day.

Jos 10:28

Jos 10:28That day Joshua took Makkedah, and put it and its king to the sword; every soul in it he gave up to the curse without mercy: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua's Conquest of Southern Palestine

Jos 10:29

Jos 10:29Then Joshua and all Israel with him went on from Makkedah and came to Libnah, and made an attack on it;

Jos 10:30

Jos 10:30And again the Lord gave it and its king into the hands of Israel; and he put it and every person in it to the sword, till their destruction was complete; and he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Jos 10:31

Jos 10:31Then Joshua and all Israel with him went on from Libnah to Lachish, and took up their position against it and made an attack on it,

Jos 10:32

Jos 10:32And the Lord gave Lachish into the hands of Israel, and on the second day he took it, putting it and every person in it to the sword without mercy, as he had done to Libnah.

Jos 10:33

Jos 10:33Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to the help of Lachish; and Joshua overcame him and his people, putting all of them to death.

Jos 10:34

Jos 10:34And Joshua and all Israel with him went on from Lachish to Eglon: and they took up their position against it and made an attack on it;

Jos 10:35

Jos 10:35And that day they took it, putting it and every person in it to the sword, as he had done to Lachish.

Jos 10:36

Jos 10:36And Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron, and made an attack on it;

Jos 10:37

Jos 10:37And took it, overcoming it and putting it and its king and its towns and every person in it to the sword: as he had done to Eglon, he put them all to death, and gave it up to the curse with every person in it.

Jos 10:38

Jos 10:38And Joshua and all Israel with him went on to make an attack on Debir;

Jos 10:39

Jos 10:39And he took it, with its king and all its towns: and he put them to the sword, giving every person in it to the curse; all were put to death: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king.

Jos 10:40

Jos 10:40So Joshua overcame all the land, the hill-country and the South and the lowland and the mountain slopes, and all their kings; all were put to death: and every living thing he gave up to the curse, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.

Jos 10:41

Jos 10:41Joshua overcame them from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen as far as Gibeon.

Jos 10:42

Jos 10:42And all these kings and their land Joshua took at the same time, because the Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for Israel.

Jos 10:43

Jos 10:43Then Joshua and all Israel with him went back to their tents at Gilgal.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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