Eglon (city)

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• JOS 10:1–5, engwebp

  ¹Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,

  ²they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

  ³Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

  ⁴“Come up to me and help me. Let’s strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”

  ⁵Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.

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• JOS 10:22–27, engwebp

  ²²Then Joshua said, “Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me.”

  ²³They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

  ²⁴When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks.

  ²⁵Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for the LORD will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”

  ²⁶Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.

  ²⁷At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

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• JOS 10:34–35, engwebp

  ³⁴Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it and fought against it.

  ³⁵They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

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• JOS 10:36–37, engwebp

  ³⁶Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it.

  ³⁷They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.

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• JOS 12:7–24, engwebp

  ⁷These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

  ⁸in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

  ⁹the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

  ¹⁰the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

  ¹¹the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

  ¹²the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

  ¹³the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;

  ¹⁴the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

  ¹⁵the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

  ¹⁶the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;

  ¹⁷the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

  ¹⁸the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;

  ¹⁹the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

  ²⁰the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

  ²¹the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

  ²²the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

  ²³the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

  ²⁴the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.

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• JOS 15:37–41, engwebp

  ³⁷Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad,

  ³⁸Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,

  ³⁹Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,

  ⁴⁰Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,

  ⁴¹Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.

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