26. Afterward Joshua smote and slew them and hanged their bodies on five trees, and they hung on the trees until evening.
27. At sunset Joshua ordered and they took the bodies down from the trees and cast them into the cave where the kings had hidden and laid great stones on the cave's mouth, which remain to this very day.
28. Joshua took Makkedah that day and smote it and its king with the sword and utterly destroyed everyone in it. He left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho. [Josh. 6:21.]
29. Then Joshua and all Israel went from Makkedah to Libnah and attacked Libnah.
30. And the Lord gave it also and its king into Israel's hands, and Joshua smote it with the sword, and all the people in it. He left none remaining in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
31. And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish and encamped against it and attacked it.
32. And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hands of Israel, and Joshua took it on the second day and smote it with the sword, and all the people in it, as he had done to Libnah.
33. Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua smote him and his people–until he had left none remaining.
34. From Lachish Joshua and all Israel went on to Eglon, laid siege to it, and attacked it.
35. And they took it that day and smote it with the sword and utterly destroyed all who were in it that day, as he had done to Lachish.
36. Then Joshua with all Israel went up from Eglon to Hebron, and they attacked it
37. And took it and smote it with the sword, and its king and all its towns and everyone in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and utterly destroyed it and all its people.
38. And Joshua and all Israel with him returned to Debir and attacked it.
39. And he took it, with its king and all its towns, and they smote them with the sword and utterly destroyed everyone in it. He left none remaining. As he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and its king.
40. So Joshua smote all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded. [Deut. 20:16.]
41. And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen even to Gibeon.