06:010:006 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua
to the camp to Gilgal,
saying,
Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us
quickly,
and save us, and help us: for all the kings of
the
Amorites
that dwell in the mountains are gathered together
against
us.
06:010:007 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and
all the people of war
with
him, and all the mighty men of valour.
06:010:008 And the lord said unto Joshua, Fear
them not: for I have
delivered
them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them
stand
before thee.
06:010:009 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly,
and went up from
Gilgal
all night.
06:010:010 And the lord discomfited them before
Israel, and slew them
with
a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along
the
way
that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah,
and
unto
Makkedah.
06:010:011 And it came to pass, as they fled from
before Israel, and were
in
the going down to Bethhoron, that the lord cast
down great
stones
from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died:
they
were
more which died with hailstones than they whom the
children
of Israel slew with the sword.
06:010:012 Then spake Joshua to the lord in the
day when the lord
delivered
up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and
he
said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still
upon
Gibeon;
and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
06:010:013 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed,
until the people
had
avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not
this written
in
the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in
the midst of
heaven,
and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
06:010:014 And there was no day like that before it
or after it, that the
lord
hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the lord
fought
for
Israel.
06:010:015 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with
him, unto the camp to
Gilgal.
06:010:016 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves
in a cave at
Makkedah.
06:010:017 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five
kings are found hid
in
a cave at Makkedah.
06:010:018 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon
the mouth of the cave,
and
set men by it for to keep them:
06:010:019 And stay ye not, but pursue after 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.
06:010:020 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 which remained of
them
entered
into fenced cities.


