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Joshua 10:18-20
New English Translation
Joshua 10:18-20
New English Translation
18 Joshua said, “Roll large stones over the mouth of the cave and post guards in front of it.[a] 19 But don’t you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them.[b] Don’t allow them to retreat to[c] their cities, for the Lord your God is handing them over to you.”[d] 20 Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.[e]
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- Joshua 10:18 tn Heb “and appoint by it men to guard them.”
- Joshua 10:19 tn Heb “But [as for] you, don’t stand still, chase after your enemies and attack them from the rear.”
- Joshua 10:19 tn Or “enter into.”
- Joshua 10:19 tn Heb “has given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.
- Joshua 10:20 tn Heb “When Joshua and the sons of Israel finished defeating them with a very great defeat until they were destroyed (now the survivors escaped to the fortified cities).” In the Hebrew text the initial temporal clause (“when Joshua…finished”) is subordinated to v. 21 (“the whole army returned”).
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