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28 Joshua captured Makkedah on that day, and he struck it and its king with the edge of the sword;[a] he utterly destroyed it and everyone that was in it. He did not leave behind a survivor. So he did to the king of Makkedah just as he did to the king of Jericho.

Joshua’s Conquest of the South

29 And Joshua passed on, and all of Israel with him, from Makkedah to Libnah, and he fought against Libnah. 30 And Yahweh also gave it into the hand of Israel, and its king and all the people in it he struck with the edge of the sword.[b] He left in it no survivor. He did to its king just as he did to the king of Jericho.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 10:28 Literally “the mouth of the sword”
  2. Joshua 10:30 Literally “the mouth of the sword”