²⁰ When Joshua and the Israelites had finished inflicting a very great slaughter on them, until they were wiped out, and when the survivors had entered into the fortified towns, ²¹ all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah; no one dared to speak^[a] against any of the Israelites.

²² Then Joshua said, ‘Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings out to me from the cave.’