Joshua 10:6-11

10:6 The men of Gibeon sent this message to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, “Do not abandon ¹  your subjects! ²  Rescue us! Help us! For all the Amorite kings living in the hill country are attacking us.” ³  10:7 So Joshua and his whole army, including the bravest warriors, marched up from Gilgal. ⁴  10:8 The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid of them, for I am handing them over to you. ⁵  Not one of them can resist you.” ⁶  10:9 Joshua attacked them by surprise after marching all night from Gilgal. ⁷  10:10 The Lord routed ⁸  them before Israel. Israel ⁹  thoroughly defeated them ¹⁰  at Gibeon. They chased them up the road to the pass ¹¹  of Beth Horon and struck them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah. 10:11 As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from ¹²  Beth Horon, the Lord threw down on them large hailstones from the sky, ¹³  all the way to Azekah. They died – in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.

[10:6]  ¹ tn Heb “do not let your hand drop from us.”

[10:6]  ² tn Heb “your servants!”

[10:6]  ³ tn Heb “have gathered against us.”

[10:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “And Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the brave warriors.”

[10:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “I have given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.

[10:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “and not a man [or “one”] of them will stand before you.”

[10:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “Joshua came upon them suddenly, all the night he went up from Gilgal.”

[10:10]  ⁸ tn Or “caused to panic.”

[10:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Israel (mentioned at the end of the previous sentence in the verse; cf. NIV, NRSV), but it is also possible that the Lord should be understood as the referent (cf. NASB “and He slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon”), or even Joshua (cf. NEB “and Joshua defeated them utterly in Gibeon”).

[10:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “struck them down with a great striking down.”

[10:10]  ¹¹ tn Or “ascent.”

[10:11]  ¹² tn Heb “on the descent of.”

[10:11]  ¹³ tn Or “heaven” (also in v. 13). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.