'Five' in the Bible
And Joshua took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
Then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they with all their armies, and they camped by Gibeon and fought against it.
Now these five [Amorite] kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
And Joshua was told, “The five kings have been found and are hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”
Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring out to me those five [Amorite] kings from the cave.”
They did so, and brought these five [Amorite] kings out of the cave to him—the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
Then afterward Joshua struck them [with his sword] and put them to death, and he hung them on five trees; and they hung on the trees until evening.
Joshua waged war with all these kings a long time [at least five years].
from the Shihor [waterway] which is east of Egypt [at the southern end of Canaan], northward to the border of Ekron (all of it regarded as Canaanite); the five rulers of the Philistines: the Gazite, Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the Avvite
because the daughters of [Zelophehad, a descendant of] Manasseh had received an inheritance among his [other] sons [whose inheritance went to their male descendants]. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.