Joshua 10:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ Now these five sovereigns had fled and hidden themselves in a cave at Maqqĕḏah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Those five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave of Makkedah.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Then those five kings fled and hid in the cave at Makkedah.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ For the five kings had fled, and had hidden themselves in a cave, near the city of Makkedah.

Joshua 10:16 Cross References

Revelation 6:15

And the sovereigns of the earth, and the great ones, and the rich ones, and the commanders, and the mighty, and every slave and every free one, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,

Micah 7:17

Let them lick the dust like a serpent, let them come trembling from their strongholds like snakes of the earth, let them be afraid of יהוה our Elohim and fear because of You.

Amos 9:2

“If they dig into She’ol, from there my hand does take them; and if they climb up to the heavens, from there I bring them down.

1 Samuel 24:8

And afterward Dawiḏ arose and went out of the cave, and called out to Sha’ul, saying, “My master the sovereign!” And when Sha’ul looked behind him, Dawiḏ bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.

1 Samuel 24:3

And he came to the sheepfolds, on the way, and there was a cave. And Sha’ul went in to relieve himself. Now Dawiḏ and his men were sitting in the sides of the cave.

1 Samuel 13:6

And the men of Yisra’ĕl saw that they were in trouble, for the people were distressed, and the people hid in caves, and in thorny bushes, and in rocks, and in holes, and in pits.

Judges 6:2

and the hand of Miḏyan was strong against Yisra’ĕl. And before the faces of the Miḏyanites the children of Yisra’ĕl made for themselves the refuges which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.

Joshua 10:5

So the five sovereigns of the Amorites – the sovereign of Yerushalayim, the sovereign of Ḥeḇron, the sovereign of Yarmuth, the sovereign of Laḵish, the sovereign of Eḡlon – gathered together and went up, they and all their armies, and camped before Giḇ‛on and fought against it.

Joshua 10:15

So Yehoshua returned, and all Yisra’ĕl with him, to the camp at Gilgal.

Joshua 10:17

And it was reported to Yehoshua, saying, “The five sovereigns have been found hidden in the cave at Maqqĕḏah.”

Psalm 68:12

Sovereigns of armies flee in haste! And she who remains at home divides the spoil.

Psalm 68:13

If you lie down among the sheepfolds, The wings of a dove are covered with silver, And her feathers with yellow gold.