Joshua 10:20

New English Translation

²⁰Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.^[a]

Joshua 10:20 tn Heb “When Joshua and the sons of Israel finished defeating them with a very great defeat until they were destroyed (now the survivors escaped to the fortified cities).” In the Hebrew text the initial temporal clause (“when Joshua…finished”) is subordinated to v. 21 (“the whole army returned”).

New English Translation (NET)