Joshua 10:17
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New International Version (©2011)
When Joshua was told that the five kings had been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah,

New Living Translation (©2007)
When Joshua heard that they had been found,

English Standard Version (©2001)
And it was told to Joshua, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
It was told Joshua, saying, "The five kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
It was reported to Joshua: "The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Joshua was informed, "The five kings have been discovered hiding in the cave at Makkedah."

NET Bible (©2006)
Joshua was told, "The five kings have been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Someone told Joshua, "The five kings have been found. They are hiding in the cave at Makkedah."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.

American King James Version
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.

American Standard Version
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it was told Josue that the five kings were found hidden in a cave of the city of Maceda.

Darby Bible Translation
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings have been found, hid in the cave at Makkedah.

English Revised Version
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.

World English Bible
Joshua was told, saying, "The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah."

Young's Literal Translation
and it is declared to Joshua, saying, 'The five kings have been found hidden in a cave at Makkedah.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:15-27 None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. This shows their perfect safety. The kings were called to an account, as rebels against the Israel of God. Refuges of lies will but secure for God's judgment. God punished the abominable wickedness of these kings, the measure of whose iniquity was now full. And by this public act of justice, done upon these ringleaders of the Canaanites in sin, he would possess his people with the greater dread and detestation of the sins of the nations that God cast out from before them. Here is a type and figure of Christ's victories over the powers of darkness, and of believers' victories through him. In our spiritual conflicts we must not be satisfied with obtaining some important victory. We must pursue our scattered enemies, searching out the remains of sin as they rise up in our hearts, and thus pursue the conquest. In so doing, the Lord will afford light until the warfare be accomplished.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it was told Joshua,.... Either by some of his own people, or by some of the inhabitants of the land in his interest, who had observed it:

saying, the five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah: this seems to make it appear that they were others, and not Joshua's soldiers, that found them; for had they, no doubt they would have seized them, and brought them before him, or slain them, unless they chose first to know his will concerning them, next expressed.

Joshua 10:17 Parallel Commentaries
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Victory at Makkedah
16But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah. 17And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah. 18And Joshua said, Roll great stones on the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them: …

Joshua 10:16 Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
Joshua 10:18 he said, "Roll large rocks up to the mouth of the cave, and post some men there to guard it.