Joshua 10:26 Then Joshua put the kings to death and exposed their bodies on five poles, and they were left hanging on the poles until evening.

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New International Version
Then Joshua put the kings to death and exposed their bodies on five poles, and they were left hanging on the poles until evening.

English Standard Version
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
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
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
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
After this, Joshua struck those kings down, executing them, and hanged them on five gallows until sunset.

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.

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.

Cross References

John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) sought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Deuteronomy 21:23
His body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that your land be not defiled, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

Joshua 8:29
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remains to this day.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

24. put your feet upon the necks of these kings—not as a barbarous insult, but a symbolical action, expressive of a complete victory (De 33:29; Ps 110:5; Mal 4:3).