10:29 Joshua and all Israel marched from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against it. 1
10:31 Joshua and all Israel marched from Libnah to Lachish. He deployed his troops 2 and fought against it. 10:32 The Lord handed Lachish over to Israel and they 3 captured it on the second day. They put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah. 10:33 Then King Horam of Gezer came up to help Lachish, but Joshua struck down him and his army 4 until no survivors remained.
10:34 Joshua and all Israel marched from Lachish to Eglon. They deployed troops 5 and fought against it.
1 tn Heb “Libnah.” Repetition of the proper name here would be redundant according to English style, so the pronoun (“it”) has been employed in the translation.
2 tn Heb “encamped against it.”
3 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).
4 tn Heb “people.”
5 tn Heb “they encamped against it.”