Jos 10:28 | KD | STEP | On the same day on which the five kings were impaled, Joshua took Makkedah (see at ), and smote the town and its king with the edge of the sword, banning the town and all the persons in it, i.e., putting all the inhabitants to death (many MSS and some editions adopt the reading אתהּ for אתם, as in ), taking the cattle and the property in the town as booty, as in the case of Ai ( ), and treating its king like the king of Jericho, who was suspended upon a stake, to judge from , , although this is not stated in Josh 6.

‏ Joshua 10:28

On the same day on which the five kings were impaled, Joshua took Makkedah (see at Jos 10:10), and smote the town and its king with the edge of the sword, banning the town and all the persons in it, i.e., putting all the inhabitants to death (many MSS and some editions adopt the reading אתהּ for אתם, as in Jos 10:37), taking the cattle and the property in the town as booty, as in the case of Ai (Jos 8:27-28), and treating its king like the king of Jericho, who was suspended upon a stake, to judge from Jos 8:2, Jos 8:29, although this is not stated in Josh 6.