Joshua 11

The Northern Conquest

11And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things, that he ^asent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king ^bof Shimron, to the king of Achshaph, ²and to the kings who were from the north, in the mountains, in the plain south of ^cChinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights ^dof Dor on the west, ³to the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the ^eAmorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, ^fand the Hivite below ^gHermon ^hin the land of Mizpah. ⁴So they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people ⁱas the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots. ⁵And when all these kings had ¹met together, they came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.

⁶But the Lord said to Joshua, ^j“Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You shall ^khamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.” ⁷So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and they attacked them. ⁸And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them and chased them to ²Greater ^lSidon, to the ³Brook ^mMisrephoth, and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until they left none of them remaining. ⁹So Joshua did to them as the Lord had told him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

¹⁰Joshua 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. ¹¹And they struck all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, ⁿutterly destroying them. There was none left ^obreathing. Then he burned Hazor with fire.

¹²So all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took and struck with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, ^pas Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. ¹³But as for the cities that stood on their ⁴mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only, which Joshua burned. ¹⁴And all the ^qspoil 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. ^15rAs the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so ^sMoses commanded Joshua, and ^tso Joshua did. ⁵He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

Summary of Joshua’s Conquests

¹⁶Thus Joshua took all this land: ^uthe mountain country, all the South, ^vall the land of Goshen, the lowland, and the Jordan ⁶plain—the mountains of Israel and its lowlands, ^17wfrom ⁷Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, even as far as Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured ^xall their kings, and struck them down and killed them. ¹⁸Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. ¹⁹There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except ^ythe Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the others they took in battle. ²⁰For ^zit was of the Lord ⁸to 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, ^aas the Lord had commanded Moses.

²¹And at that time Joshua came and cut off ^bthe 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. ²²None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only ^cin Gaza, in Gath, ^dand in Ashdod.

²³So Joshua took the whole land, ^eaccording to all that the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel ^faccording to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land ^grested from war.