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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Makkedah
Five Amorite kings ran from the battle at Gibeon and hid in a cave near this royal city in the Shephelah. Joshua sealed them in until the fighting was over, then brought them out, killed them, and hung their bodies on trees. Then he took the city.
Five Amorite kings ran from the battle at Gibeon and hid in a cave near this royal city in the Shephelah. Joshua sealed them in until the fighting was over, then brought them out, killed them, and hung their bodies on trees. Then he took the city.
Makkedah was a royal Canaanite city in the Shephelah near a cave where five allied Amorite kings hid after their defeat by Joshua at Gibeon. Joshua had the kings sealed inside the cave until the battle was finished, then had them brought out, executed, and their bodies hung on trees before the city itself was captured and destroyed.
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- Joshua 10:10
- Joshua 10:16
- Joshua 10:17
- Joshua 10:21
- Joshua 10:28
- Joshua 10:29
- Joshua 12:16
- Joshua 15:41
