Joshua
Chapter Eleven
1 ¶ And it came to
pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things, that he sent to Jobab king
of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,
2 and to the kings who were from the north, in the mountains, in the plain south
of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
3 to the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the
Perizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, and the Hivite below Hermon in the
land of Mizpah.
4 So they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as the
sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.
5 And when all these kings had met together, they came and camped together at
the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.
6 But the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow
about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You shall hamstring
their horses and burn their chariots with fire."
7 So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by
the waters of Merom, and they attacked them.
8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them and
chased them to Greater Sidon, to the Brook Misrephoth, and to the Valley of
Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until they left none of them remaining.
9 So Joshua did to them as the LORD had told him: he hamstrung their horses
and burned their chariots with fire.
10 ¶ Joshua turned back at that time and took Hazor, and struck its king
with the sword; for Hazor was formerly the head of all those kingdoms.
11 And they struck all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword,
utterly destroying them. There was none left breathing. Then he burned Hazor
with fire.
12 So all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took and struck
with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant
of the LORD had commanded.
13 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them,
except Hazor only, which Joshua burned.
14 And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the children of Israel
took as booty for themselves; but they struck every man with the edge of the
sword until they had destroyed them, and they left none breathing.
15 ¶ As the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua,
and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded
Moses.
16 Thus Joshua took all this land: the mountain country, all the South, all
the land of Goshen, the lowland, and the Jordan plain-the mountains of Israel
and its lowlands,
17 from Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, even as far as Baal Gad in the Valley
of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings, and struck them
down and killed them.
18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except
the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the others they took in battle.
20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against
Israel in battle, that He might utterly destroy them, and that they might receive
no mercy, but that He might destroy them, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
21 And at that time Joshua came and cut off the Anakim from the mountains: from
Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the mountains of Judah, and from all
the mountains of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
22 None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they
remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.
23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to
Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions
by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.
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