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Joshua 10:21-23
New English Translation
Joshua 10:21-23
New English Translation
21 Then the whole army safely returned to Joshua at the camp in Makkedah.[a] No one[b] dared threaten the Israelites.[c] 22 Joshua said, “Open the cave’s mouth and bring the five kings[d] out of the cave to me.” 23 They did as ordered;[e] they brought the five kings[f] out of the cave to him—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
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- Joshua 10:21 tn Heb “all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua [at] Makkedah [in] peace.”
- Joshua 10:21 tc Heb “No man.” The lamed (ל) prefixed to אִישׁ (ʾish, “man”) is probably dittographic (note the immediately preceding יִשְׂרָאֵל [yisraʾel] which ends in lamed, ל); cf. the LXX.
- Joshua 10:21 tn Heb “no man sharpened [or perhaps, “pointed”] his tongue against the sons of Israel.” Cf. NEB “not a man of the Israelites suffered so much as a scratch on his tongue,” which understands “sharpened” as “scratched” (referring to a minor wound). Most modern translations understand the Hebrew expression “sharpened his tongue” figuratively for opposition or threats against the Israelites.
- Joshua 10:22 tn Heb “these five kings.”
- Joshua 10:23 tn Heb “they did so.”
- Joshua 10:23 tn Heb “these five kings.”
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