The Day the Sun Stood Still

10 Now King Adoni-zedek of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and completely destroyed^(A) it, treating Ai and its king as he had Jericho and its king, and that the inhabitants of Gibeon^(B) had made peace with Israel and were living among them.^(C)

²⁰ If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you, harm you, and completely destroy^(A) you, after he has been good to you.’

¹⁷ Judah went with his brother Simeon, struck the Canaanites who were living in Zephath, and completely destroyed the town. So they named the town Hormah.^(A)

¹¹ This is what you should do: Completely destroy every male, as well as every woman who has gone to bed with a man.’

³ Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have.^(A) Do not spare them. Kill men and women, infants and nursing babies, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.” ’^(B)

⁸ their descendants who remained in the land after them, those the Israelites had not completely destroyed – Solomon imposed forced labour on them; it is this way today.^(A)

⁹ I am going to send for all the families of the north”^(A) – this is the Lord’s declaration – ”and send for my servant^(B) Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror^(C) and scorn, and ruins for ever.^(D)