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Joshua 10:19

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but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.”

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Joshua 10:19 in other translations

but stay not ye; pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for Jehovah your God hath delivered them into your hand.

Joshua 10:19 · American Standard Version

Joshua 10:19 in context

  1. 17Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”
  2. 18Joshua said, “Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them;
  3. 19but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.”
  4. 20When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
  5. 21all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.