Now it happened, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
Bible students once had to contend with the bald, unsupported assertions of Biblical enemies that the account in this chapter is "unhistorical."  Samuel Holmes, for example said: "This section  (Joshua 10:28-40) is quite unhistorical."[10]  The spade of the archeologist has proved the historical nature of this account.