Joshua 11:1–10

Joshua Takes the Whole Land

¹Now it happened, when Jabin king of ^aHazor heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon and to the king of Shimron and to the king of Achshaph,

²and to the kings who were of the north in the hill country and in the ^aArabah—south of ¹Chinneroth and in the ²Shephelah and on the ³heights of Dor on the west—

³to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite in the hill country, and ^athe Hivite ¹at the foot of ^bHermon in the land of ^cMizpeh.

⁴Then they came out, they and all their armies with them, ^aas many people as the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.

⁵So all of these kings agreed to meet, and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

⁶Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “^aDo not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give all of them over, slain, before Israel; you shall ^bhamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”

⁷So Joshua and all the people of war with him came upon them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and they fell upon them.

⁸And Yahweh gave them into the hand of Israel, so that they struck them down, and they pursued them as far as Great Sidon and ^aMisrephoth-maim and the valley of ^bMizpeh to the east; and they struck them until ¹there was no survivor remaining for them.

⁹And Joshua did to them as Yahweh had said to him; he ^ahamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

¹⁰Then Joshua turned back at that time and captured ^aHazor and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor formerly was the head of all these kingdoms.