Verses 28–43  We are here informed how Joshua improved the late
glorious victory he had obtained and the advantages he had
gained by it, and to do this well is a general’s praise.  I.
Here is a particular account of the several cities which he
immediately made himself master of. 1. The cities of three of
the kings whom he had conquered in the field he went and took
possession of, Lachish (Josh. 10:31, 32), Eglon (Josh. 10:34,
35), and Hebron, Josh. 10:36, 37. The other two, Jerusalem and
Jarmuth, were not taken at this time; perhaps his forces were
either so much fatigued with what they had done or so well
content with what they had got that they had no mind to attack
those places, and so they let slip the fairest opportunity they
could ever expect of reducing them with ease, which afterwards
was not done without difficulty, Jdg. 1:8; 2 Sam. 5:6. 2. Three
other cities, and royal cities too, he took: Makkedah, into the
neighbourhood of which the five kings had fled, which brought
Joshua and his forces thither