So he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they and all their armies, and camped before Gibeon and made war against it.

The Amorite Kings Executed

But these five kings had fled and hidden themselves in a cave at Makkedah.

And it was told Joshua, saying, “The five kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings to me from the cave.”

And they did so, and brought out those five kings to him from the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

And afterward Joshua struck them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they were hanging on the trees until evening.

from Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward (which is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the Philistines—the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites;

And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.