Joshua 10:20

the rest i.e. broken remnants of the fugitives.

fenced cities "the strengthid citees," Wyclif, = the fortified towns of great strength and impregnable position. Comp. Numbers 32:17; Deuteronomy 3:5; Deuteronomy 9:1; Joshua 14:12; 1 Samuel 6:18, &c. The fortifications of the cities of Palestine regularly fenced, consisted of one or more walls crowned with battlemented parapets, having towers at regular intervals (2 Chronicles 32:5; Jeremiah 31:38), on which in later times engines of war were placed, and in time of war watch was kept night and day (Jdg 9:46-47; 2 Kings 9:17; 2 Chronicles 26:9; 2 Chronicles 26:15). The earlier Egyptian fortifications consisted of a quadrangular and sometimes double wall of sun-dried brick, fifteen feet thick, and often fifty feet in height, with square towers at intervals of the same height as the walls, both crowned with a parapet, and a round-headed battlement in shape like a shield. See Smith's Bib. Dict. 1:616.