The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Joshua 11
1 When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it,
he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king
of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,
2 and to the kings who were on the north,
in the hill country, in the Arabah south
of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the
heights of Dor on the west,
3 to the Canaanite on the east and on the
west,the Amorite,the Hittite,the Perizzite,
the Jebusite in the hill country, and the
Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
4 They went out,they andalltheir armies
with them, many people, even as the sand
that is on the seashore in multitude, with
very many horses and chariots.
5 All these kings met together; and they
came andencampedtogether atthe waters
of Merom, to fight with Israel.
6 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid
because of them; for tomorrow at this
time, I will deliver them up all slain before
Israel. You shall hamstring their horses
and burn their chariots with fire.”
7 So Joshua came suddenly, with all the
warriors, against them by the waters of
Merom, and attacked them.
8 Yahweh delivered them into the hand
ofIsrael, and they struck them, and chased
them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth
Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left
them no one remaining.
9 Joshua did to them as Yahweh 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 used to be the head of all
those kingdoms.
11 They struck all the souls who were
in it with the edge of the sword, utterly
destroying them. There was no one left
who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.
12 Joshua captured all the cities of those
kings, with their kings, and he struck them
with the edge of the sword, and utterly
destroyed them, as Moses the servant of
Yahweh commanded.
13 But as for the cities that stood on their
mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.
14 The children ofIsraeltook allthe plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as
plunder for themselves; but every man
they struck with the edge of the sword,
until they had destroyed them. They didn’t
leave any who breathed.
15 As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, soMoses commandedJoshua. Joshua
did so. He left nothing undone of all that
Yahweh commanded Moses.
16 So Joshua captured all that land, the
hill country, all the South, all the land of
Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill
country of Israel, and the lowland of the
same,
17 from Mount Halak,that goes up to Seir,
even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon
under Mount Hermon. He took all their
kings, struck them, and put them to death.
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. They
took all in battle.
20 For it was of Yahweh to harden their
hearts, to come againstIsrael in battle, that
he might utterly destroy them, that they
might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
21 Joshua came at that time, and cut off
the Anakim from the hill country, from
Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from
all the hill country of Judah, and from all
the hill country of Israel. Joshua utterly
destroyed them with their cities.
22 There were none of the Anakim left
in the land of the children of Israel. Only
in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some
remain.
23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and
Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel
according to their divisions by their tribes.
Then the land had rest from war.