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Joshua 10:19

American Standard Version

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.

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Joshua 10:19 in other translations

but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.”

Joshua 10:19 · World English Bible

Joshua 10:19 in context

  1. 17And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
  2. 18And Joshua said, Roll great stones unto the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them:
  3. 19but 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.
  4. 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,
  5. 21that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.