Joshua 10:19

What does Joshua 10:19 mean?

A plain-English look at Joshua 10:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

but stay not ye; pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for Jehovah your God hath delivered them into your hand.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And stay ye not, but 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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

but stay not ye; pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for Jehovah your God hath delivered them into your hand.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

But do you, without waiting, go after their army, attacking them from the back; do not let them get into their towns, for the Lord your God has given them into your hands.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and ye, stand not, pursue after your enemies, and ye have smitten the hindmost of them; suffer them not to go in unto their cities, for Jehovah your God hath given them into your hand.'

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And stay you not, but pursue after the enemies, and kill all the hindermost of them as they flee, and do not suffer them whom the Lord God hath delivered into your hands, to shelter themselves in their cities.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And ye, stay not, pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities; for Jehovah yourGod has given them into your hand.

Context

v.18And Joshua said, Roll great stones unto the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them:

v.19This passage

v.20And 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, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 8:14

    Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

  • Isaiah 9:14

    Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.

  • Jeremiah 48:10

    Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

  • 2 Samuel 17:13

    Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.

  • Psalms 18:37

    I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; Neither will I turn again till they are consumed.

  • Joshua 10:20

    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, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

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