Joshua was told, saying, "The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
KJV
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.
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And it was told Joshua,.... Either by some of his own people, or by some of the inhabitants of the land in his interest, who had observed it:
saying, the five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah: this seems to make it appear that they were others, and not Joshua's soldiers, that found them; for had they, no doubt they would have seized them, and brought them before him, or slain them, unless they chose first to know his will concerning them, next expressed.
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