Drunk With Blood by Steve Wells Page B

for Israel.” He “discomfited them ... and slew them with a great slaughter ... and chased them along the way.” He “cast down great stones from heaven” and made the sun (and moon) stand still still so that Joshua could get his killing done in the broad daylight. God hadn’t been so busy since he made all the stars in a single day.
    But while God was busy chasing people, throwing stones, and stopping the sun and the moon from moving, the five kings got away. They were holed up in a cave like Bin Laden.
    But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah. Joshua 10.16
    When the Israelites found them, Joshua told them to roll some big stones over the mouth of the cave to trap them, and then chase and kill any of the Amorite soldiers that were trying to get away. He told them to “smite the hindmost of them” (kick their butts).
    Pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand. 10.19
    So that’s what they did.
    And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed. 10.20
    Then they opened up the cave and brought the five kings to Joshua. He and his captains then do something strange: they put their feet on the necks of the kings.
    Joshua ... said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. 10.24
    While they are doing this, Joshua says
    Thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight. 10.25
    So I guess God does this to his enemies, too.
    After Joshua withdraws his feet from the kings’ necks, he does what he does best: he kills them.
    Joshua smote them, and slew them. 10.26a
    And hangs their dead bodies on trees until evening.
    And hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening. 10.26b
    Then he took down their bodies, put them back in the cave that they were hiding in, and covered the entrance to the cave with a bunch of rocks. The rocks are still there to this day. No kidding.
    They took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave’s mouth, which remain until this very day. 10.27
    (I put the death toll for the “very great slaughter” of Joshua 10.20 at 10,000.)

36. Joshua utterly destroyed all that breathed as the Lord God commanded
    Joshua 10.28-42
    Estimated Number Killed: 7,000
    Seven kings and all their people
    The title pretty much says it all on this one. It’s kind of boring reading though.
    Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain : and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho. Joshua 10.28
    The same thing happens in the same way seven times, all in about a dozen verses or so.
    Then Joshua ... fought against Libnah: And the LORD delivered it also ... and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain. 10.29-30
    The LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it … and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein. 10.32
    Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining. 10.33
    Joshua passed unto Eglon … and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day. 10.34-35
    Joshua went up … unto Hebron; and they fought against it: And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining. 10.36-37
    Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against