你们却不可耽延,要追赶你们的仇敌,击杀他们尽后边的人,不容他们进自己的城邑,因为耶和华你们的神已经把他们交在你们手里。
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.
约书亚对他们说,你们不要惧怕,也不要惊惶。应当刚强壮胆,因为耶和华必这样待你们所要攻打的一切仇敌。
And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.
随后约书亚将这五王杀死,挂在五棵树上。他们就在树上直挂到晚上。
And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
日头要落的时候,约书亚一吩咐,人就把尸首从树上取下来,丢在他们藏过的洞里,把几块大石头放在洞口,直存到今日。
And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
耶和华将拉吉交在以色列人的手里。第二天约书亚就夺了拉吉,用刀击杀了城中的一切人口,是照他向立拿一切所行的。
And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
那时基色王荷兰上来帮助拉吉,约书亚就把他和他的民都击杀了,没有留下一个。
Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
约书亚和以色列众人从伊矶伦上希伯仑去,攻打这城,
And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it:
约书亚和以色列众人回到底璧,攻打这城,
And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:
就夺了底璧和属底璧的城邑,又擒获底璧的王,用刀将这些城中的人口尽行杀灭,没有留下一个。他待底璧和底璧王,像从前待希伯仑和立拿与立拿王一样。
And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.
这样,约书亚击杀全地的人,就是山地,南地,高原,山坡的人,和那些地的诸王,没有留下一个。将凡有气息的尽行杀灭,正如耶和华以色列的神所吩咐的。
So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.