11:12 Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, 2 as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded.
1 tn This statement is subordinated to v. 1 in the Hebrew text, which reads literally, “When Adoni-Zedek…they feared greatly.” The subject of the plural verb at the beginning of v. 2 is probably the residents of Jerusalem.
2 tn Heb “and he struck them down with the edge of the sword, he annihilated them.”