SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:27
Y cuando el sol se iba a poner, mandó Josué que los quitasen de los maderos, y los echasen en la cueva donde se habían escondido; y pusieron grandes piedras a la boca de la cueva, hasta hoy.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 27. And it came to pass, at the time of the going down of the sun , etc.] Which was the time fixed by the law of God for taking down bodies that were hanged, ( Deuteronomy 21:23); [that] Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees ; not from, any respect to them, but that they might not defile the land, as dead bodies in a ceremonial sense did, ( Deuteronomy 21:23); and this Joshua was the more careful of, as they were just entered into it, and were taking possession of it: and they cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid ; so that what had been their hiding place now became their grave; and according to the Samaritan Chronicle f199 , the trees also on which they were hanged were cast in with them; and laid great stones in the cave’s mouth : not as a monumental pile, as in the instances of Achan and the king of Ai, ( Joshua 7:26 8:29); but to prevent their carcasses being dragged out, and eaten by wild beasts, as some think; or that they might not be taken out, and buried in a more honourable manner: [which remain] until this very day ; when Joshua was grown old, the writer of this book.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-27 - None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. This show their perfect safety. The kings were called to an account, as rebel against the Israel of God. Refuges of lies will but secure for God' judgment. God punished the abominable wickedness of these kings, the measure of whose iniquity was now full. And by this public act of justice, done upon these ringleaders of the Canaanites in sin, he woul possess his people with the greater dread and detestation of the sin of the nations that God cast out from before them. Here is a type an figure of Christ's victories over the powers of darkness, and of believers' victories through him. In our spiritual conflicts we mus not be satisfied with obtaining some important victory. We must pursu our scattered enemies, searching out the remains of sin as they rise u in our hearts, and thus pursue the conquest. In so doing, the Lord wil afford light until the warfare be accomplished.
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 לעת 6256 בוא 935 השׁמשׁ 8121 צוה 6680 יהושׁע 3091 וירידום 3381 מעל 5921 העצים 6086 וישׁלכם 7993 אל 413 המערה 4631 אשׁר 834 נחבאו 2244 שׁם 8033 וישׂמו 7760 אבנים 68 גדלות 1419 על 5921 פי 6310 המערה 4631 עד 5704 עצם 6106 היום 3117 הזה׃ 2088
