Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 10:16

16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah .

Named above, v. 3.

As a place of most secrecy or security; but there is no escaping the eye or hand of God, who here brought them into a Net of their own making.

Heb. in Makkedah, not in the city, for that was not yet taken; but in the Territory of it, as in Gibeon, v. 10.