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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Joshua (EXO 17:9)
OET-LV And_he_struck_them_down Yəhōshūˊa after thus and_he_killed_them and_he_hanged_them on five trees and_they_were hanged on the_trees until the_evening.
OET (OET-RV) Then Yehoshua executed the five kings and hanged them on five trees, where their bodies were left until evening.
The kings of five Canaanite towns joined together to fight against Gibeon. Because the Israelites had a peace treaty with Gibeon, they helped them in their fight. Yahweh helped the Israelites by sending down hailstones on the Canaanites, and by causing the sun to stop moving so that the Israelites could continue their victory. The five Canaanite kings were captured and put to death.
Here are some other possible section headings:
Israel defeated the Canaan group
The sun stood still
After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings,
Then Joshua killed the kings
After this, Joshua put the five kings to death,
After this: The phrase After this indicates that the next event took place after the officers put their feet on the necks of the kings.
Here is another way to translate this phrase:
After the officers had done this
Joshua struck down and killed the kings: The two clauses struck down and killed the kings are parallel and have the same meaning. They indicate that Joshua killed the five kings. In some languages it may be more natural to use one verb rather than two to indicate this. For example:
Then Joshua killed each of the five kings (NLT)
and he hung their bodies on five trees
and hung their bodies on five poles,
and hung their dead bodies on five trees,
and he hung their bodies on five trees: The clause he hung their bodies on five trees indicates that after Joshua killed the five kings, he hung them each on a tree as a public sign that God had cursed them. This was the same as Joshua did to the king of Ai in 8:29, and you should translate it in a similar way. See also Deuteronomy 21:22–23 where Moses gave rules for how such executions should be done.
and left them there until evening.
where they hung until evening.
and left them there until the evening.
and left them there until evening: The clause and left them there until evening indicates that Joshua left the five kings on the trees all day. In the evening, when the sun was setting, he took them down. This was commanded by Moses in Deuteronomy 21:23.
OET-LV And_he_struck_them_down Yəhōshūˊa after thus and_he_killed_them and_he_hanged_them on five trees and_they_were hanged on the_trees until the_evening.
OET (OET-RV) Then Yehoshua executed the five kings and hanged them on five trees, where their bodies were left until evening.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.
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