erusalem took it to heart that the Gibeonites had
gone over to Joshua; so he called upon the kings of the neighboring
nations to join together, and make war against them. Now when the
Gibeonites saw these kings, which were four, besides the king of
Jerusalem, and perceived that they had pitched their camp at a certain
fountain not far from their city, and were getting ready for the siege
of it, they called upon Joshua to assist them; for such was their case,
as to expect to be destroyed by these Canaanites, but to suppose
they should be saved by those that came for the destruction of the
Canaanites, because of the league of friendship that was between them.
Accordingly, Joshua made haste with his whole army to assist them, and
marching day and night, in the morning he fell upon the enemies as
they were going up to the siege; and when he had discomfited them, he
followed them, and pursued them down the descent of the hills. The place
is called Bethhoron; where he also understood that God assisted him,
which he declared by thunder and thunderbolts, as also by the falling
of hail larger than usual. Moreover, it happened that the day was
lengthened [7] that the night might not come on too soon, and be an
obstruction to the zeal of the Hebrews in pursuing their enemies;
insomuch that Joshua took the kings, who were hidden in a certain cave
at Makkedah, and put them to death. Now, that the day was lengthened at
this thee, and was longer than ordinary, is expressed in the books laid
up in the temple. [8]

18. These kings which made war with, and were ready to fight the
Gibeonites, being thus overthrown, Joshua returned again to the
mountainous parts of Canaan; and when he had made a great slaughter of
the people there, and took their prey, he came to the camp at Gilgal.
And now there went a great fame abroad among the neighboring people of
the courage of the Hebrews; and those that heard what a number of men
were destroyed, were greatly aftrighted at it: so the kings that lived
about Mount Libanus, who were Canaanites, and those Canaanites that
dwelt in the plain country, with auxiliaries out of the land of the
Philistines, pitched their camp at Beroth, a city of the Upper Galilee,
not far from Cadesh, which is itself also a place in Galilee. Now the
number of the whole army was three hundred thousand armed footmen,
and ten thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand chariots; so that
the multitude of the enemies aftrighted both Jo