8. The Lord said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.”
9. Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night.
10. The Lord confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.
11. As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, the Lord hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
12. Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”
13. The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.
14. There was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord listened to the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel.
15. Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
16. These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
17. Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”
18. Joshua said, “Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them;