JOSHUA 10:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.”
The kings are executed — Joshua struck them down and put them to death, and he hung them on five trees (תַּלָה אוֹתָם עַל־חָמֵשׁ עֵצִים). The execution is swift and decisive. The hanging of the kings on trees—a practice known from Mesopotamian sources and mentioned in law codes—displays them as a public testimony to defeat. In Israel's law, hanging after execution is a form of humiliating a criminal's corpse (cf. Deuteronomy 21:22-23). The five trees correspond to the five kings and the five cities.
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