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MOF JOS Chapter 11

11 When Jabin the king of Hazor heard this, he sent to Jobab the king of Madon and to the king of Shimron and to the king of Achshaph 2 and to the kings in the north, in the highlands, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the lowlands, and in the uplands of Dor to the west, 3 to the Canaanites on the east and on the west, to the Amorites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the highlands, and to the Hittites at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpah. 4 They all sallied out, with all their forces, a huge host, as numerous as the sand on the seashore, with a multitude of horses and chariots. 5 All these kings joined forces and went to encamp at the waters of Merom, to attack Israel. 6 But the Eternal said to Joshua, “Be not afraid of them, for tomorrow about this time I will hand them over to Israel all dead men; you shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.” 7 Joshua and all his troops made a sudden attack upon them beside the waters of Merom; they made an onset, 8 and the Eternal put them into the hands of Israel, who routed them, chasing them to Sidon the Great and Misrephoth-maim and the wady of Mizpeh eastward; they routed them and left not one alive. 9 Joshua treated them as the Eternal bade him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots. 10 Joshua then wheeled round and captured Hazor, cutting down the king of the place (for Hazor was formerly at the head of these realms). 11 They massacred every soul in the place, wiping them out, till not a living soul was left, and Hazor was burned to the ground. 12 All the towns of these kings and all the kings themselves Joshua captured and massacred, wiping them all out, as Moses the servant of the Eternal had ordered. 13 (Towns standing on their own mounds of earth, however, Israel did not burn, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned.) 14 All the spoil and cattle of these towns the Israelites took for themselves; but they massacred every man till they were wiped out, and not a living soul was left. 15 As the Eternal had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses had commanded Joshua, and Joshua obeyed; of all that the Eternal had commanded Moses, he left not a thing undone. 16 In this way Joshua captured all that country, the highlands, all the Negeb, all the land of Goshen, the lowlands, the Arabah, the highlands and the lowlands of Israel, 17 from mount Halak that rises to Seir, as far as to Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon at the foot of mount Hermon; he captured all the kings and put them to death. 18 Joshua was a long time warring with all these kings; 19 not a single town would make peace with the Israelites, except the Hivites who inhabited Gibeon; all the rest had to be captured by fighting. 20 It was the Eternal who made their hearts stubborn enough to battle with Israel, that he might have them all wiped out and destroyed without mercy, as the Eternal had commanded Moses. 21 It was then that Joshua went and wiped out the giants from the hills, from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the highlands of Israel and of Judah; Joshua massacred them and sacked their towns. 22 None of the giants was left in the land of Israel; it was only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod, that some still lived. 23 Thus Joshua captured the whole country, as. the Eternal had told Moses; Joshua assigned it to the clans of Israel by their divisions as their own property. And so the land had rest from war.

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