Joshua 10:6,7

Slack not thy hand from thy servants Do not neglect or delay to help us, whom thou art obliged to protect both in duty, as thou art our master, and for thy own interest, we being part of thy possessions; and because we have given ourselves to thee, and put ourselves under thy protection. In the mountains In the mountainous country. So Joshua ascended Having no doubt asked counsel of God first, which is implied in the answer God gives him, Joshua 10:8. All the mighty men That is, an army of the most valiant men picked out from the rest: for it is not probable either that he would take the whole army with him, consisting of so many hundreds of thousands, who would only have embarrassed and hindered one another, or that he would leave the camp without an army to defend it.