Joshua 10:26
 Joshua 10:26 
New International Version (©2011)
Then Joshua put the kings to death and exposed their bodies on five poles, and they were left hanging on the poles until evening.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then Joshua killed each of the five kings and impaled them on five sharpened poles, where they hung until evening.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees. And they hung on the trees until evening.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees; and they hung on the trees until evening.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
After this, Joshua struck them down and executed them. He hung their bodies on five trees and they were there until evening.

International Standard Version (©2012)
After this, Joshua struck those kings down, executing them, and hanged them on five gallows until sunset.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then Joshua executed them and hung them on five trees. They were left hanging on the trees until evening.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
After this, Joshua put them to death and hung their bodies on five poles until evening.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And afterward Joshua struck them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

American King James Version
And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging on the trees until the evening.

American Standard Version
And afterward Joshua smote them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Josue struck, and slew them, and hanged them upon five gibbets, and they hung until the evening.

Darby Bible Translation
And afterwards Joshua smote them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees; and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

English Revised Version
And afterward Joshua smote them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

Webster's Bible Translation
And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

World English Bible
Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.

Young's Literal Translation
and Joshua smiteth them afterwards, and putteth them to death, and hangeth them on five trees; and they are hanging on the trees till the evening.

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.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 26. - And hanged them. This was also a symbolical act, intended to encourage Israel in their warfare. All that day, until its close, were the bodies of the five kings visible to the whole host, to remind them of the signal victory God had vouchsafed them. The same thing had been done at Ai. See Joshua 8:29.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And afterwards Joshua smote them and slew them,.... With the sword; either by his own hands, or by others whom he ordered to slay them:

and hanged them on five trees; to their shame and disgrace, and the terror of others:

and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening; by way of contempt of them, and as a spectacle of terror to others, especially to the inhabitants of Makkedah, and their king they were now besieging.


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Victory at Makkedah
25And Joshua said to them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom you fight. 26And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging on the trees until the evening. 27And 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.

John 19:31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.
Deuteronomy 21:23 you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God's curse. You must not desecrate the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Joshua 8:29 He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.