Quotes about Leaders

And Joshua was informed: “The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”

After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.

from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to death.

the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

and the king of Tirzah, one. So there were thirty-one kings in all.

They approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, and said, “The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” So Joshua gave them an inheritance among their father’s brothers, in keeping with the command of the LORD.

Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the clans of Israel: