Joshua's Commandment to the Men of War

When Joshua and the men of Israel had finished slaying them with a very great slaughter until they were wiped out, all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makkadah. Not a man moved his tongue against any of the sons of Israel. But do not stay there yourselves, pursue your enemies, fall upon their rear, do not let them enter their cities for the Lord your God has given them into your hand. And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death and he hung them on five treesuntil evening. They then took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves. So Joshua defeated the whole land, the hill country and the