Makkedah in Biblical History

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What is Makkedah?
MAK'KEDAH
(place of shepherds), a royal city of the Canaanites in the plains of Judah, where Joshua executed the five confederate kings. Josh 10:10; Neh 12:16; Josh 15:41. Warren would identify it with el-Moghar, 25 miles north-west from Jerusalem, and Conder describes it as on the north side of the valley Sorek, 25 miles from Gibeon, close to the main road from Gaza to Lydda. There is a promontory divided into three tops, the last of which falls abruptly and supports a large mud village upon the steep eastern side and huddled around the caves. There are still two caves wherein five men might crowd, and the entrance could be easily blocked with the great stones which lie scattered near. One cave has, curiously enough, five loculi rudely scooped in its side, and an enthusiast might contend that this was the very place of sepulchre of the five kings who were hidden at Makkedah.

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