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.