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# fortified cities

These are cities with high walls around them to protect the people inside from attack by their enemies.

# The great stone ... remains a witness

"The great stone ... is still there, and people remember what happened on it" 

# Joshua

This is a man's name. 

# the Bethshemite

"from Beth Shemesh" 

# to this day

to the time at which the writer wrote the book