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Makkedah: Five Kings of the Amorites Hide in a Cave of, and are Killed by Joshua

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Joshua 10:5, 16–27 So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it. / Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah. / At sunset Joshua ordered that they be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave in which they had hidden. Then large stones were placed against the mouth of the cave, and the stones are there to this day.