²⁰ When Joshua and the men of Israel had finished slaying them with a very great slaughter, until they were wiped out, and when the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities, ²¹ all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makke′dah; not a man moved his tongue against any of the people of Israel.

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