Joshua 11
1 When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard about this, he sent word to Jobab, king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
2 and to the kings in the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the Shephelah, and in the hills of Dor to the west,
3 to the Canaanites in the east and west, the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites at the foot of Hermon, in the land of Mizpah.
4 They came out with all their armies, a vast multitude, as numerous as the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
5 All these kings joined forces. They came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.
6 The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand them over, all dead, to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots in the fire.”
7 Joshua and all the troops with him came upon them suddenly at the waters of Merom and attacked them.
8 The LORD handed them over to Israel, who struck them down and pursued them as far as Great Sidon, Misrephoth-maim, and the Valley of Mizpeh to the east. They struck them down until no survivor was left.
9 Joshua did to them as the LORD had told him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots in the fire.
10 At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor. He struck its king down with the sword, because Hazor had formerly been the leading city of all these kingdoms.
11 They struck down everyone in it with the sword, devoting them to destruction. No one who breathed was left, and Joshua burned Hazor in the fire.
12 Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, along with all their kings, and struck them down with the sword, devoting them to destruction, as Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded.
13 Israel did not burn any of the cities standing on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua alone burned.
14 The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder from these cities and their livestock. They struck down every person with the sword until they had destroyed them all; they left no one who breathed.
15 As the LORD had commanded his servant Moses, Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.
16 Joshua took all that land: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the Shephelah, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel and its Shephelah,
17 from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon, at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings, struck them down, and put them to death.
18 Joshua waged war against all these kings for many days.
19 No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; they took them all in battle.
20 For it was the LORD who hardened their hearts to meet Israel in battle, so that they would be devoted to destruction and receive no mercy, and so that they would be destroyed, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
21 At that time Joshua went and wiped out the Anakim from the hill country—from Hebron, Debir, Anab, all the hill country of Judah, and all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction, along with their cities.
22 No Anakim remained in the land of the Israelites; some remained only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.
23 Joshua took all the land, just as the LORD had told Moses, and Joshua gave it to Israel as an inheritance, divided among their tribes. And the land had rest from war.
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