The Sun Stands Still

10 Now Adoni-Zedek^(A) king of Jerusalem^(B) heard that Joshua had taken Ai^(C) and totally destroyed^[a](D) it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the people of Gibeon^(E) had made a treaty of peace^(F) with Israel and had become their allies.

²⁰ If you forsake the Lord^(A) and serve foreign gods, he will turn^(B) and bring disaster^(C) on you and make an end of you,^(D) after he has been good to you.”

¹⁷ Then the men of Judah went with the Simeonites^(A) their fellow Israelites and attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and they totally destroyed^[a] the city. Therefore it was called Hormah.^[b](B)

¹¹ “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male^(A) and every woman who is not a virgin.^(B)”

³ Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally^(A) destroy^[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

⁸ Solomon conscripted^(A) the descendants of all these people remaining in the land—whom the Israelites had not destroyed—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.

⁹ I will summon^(A) all the peoples of the north^(B) and my servant^(C) Nebuchadnezzar^(D) king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy^[a](E) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,^(F) and an everlasting ruin.^(G)