^{26 Ref} Afterward Joshua struck them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging on the trees until the evening.

^{27 Ref} It happened at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, to this very day.