“Y’hoshua captured Makkedah that day, defeating it and its king by the sword. He completely destroyed them, everyone there — he left no one; and he did to the king of Makkedah what he had done to the king of Yericho.”-Joshua 10:28 After Joshua had executed the five kings, from verse 28, we’re told with […]

“With that, Y’hoshua struck them and put them to death, hanging them on five trees, where they remained hanging until evening.”-Joshua 10:22 Things just go from bad to worse for the 5-king coalition that had attacked Gibeon. First, they were humiliated when Joshua’s officers placed their feet on the back of their necks demonstrating just who […]

“Then Y’hoshua said, ‘Open up the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me.  They did it; they brought the five kings out to him — the kings of Yerushalayim, Hevron, Yarmut, Lakhish and ‘Eglon.  After they had brought the five kings to Y’hoshua, he summoned all the […]

“After Y’hoshua and the people of Israel had finished killing them off in a very great slaughter, till they had been destroyed, and the remaining remnant had entered the fortified cities, all the people returned safely to Y’hoshua at the camp in Makkedah; and no one said a word against any of the people of […]

There’s an important point I need to go over again concerning Israel’s battle with the 5-king coalition that’s directly applicable to our lives. When God told Joshua He had turned over the enemy to Israel, did you notice that Joshua’s men didn’t just sit on their butts around their campfires and sing Kumbaya while they […]