Joshua:11

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* And it came to pass , when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things , that he sent to Jobab king of Madon , to the king of Shimron , to the king of Achshaph , * and to the kings who were from the north , in the mountains , in the plain south of Chinnereth , in the lowland , and in the heights of Dor on the west , * to the Canaanites in the east and in the west , the Amorite , the Hittite , the Perizzite , the Jebusite in the mountains , and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah . * And they went out , they and all their armies with them , as many people as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude , with very many horses and chariots . * And when all these kings had met together , they came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel . * And Jehovah said to Joshua , Do not be afraid before them , for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel . You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire . * So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the waters of Merom , and fell upon them . * And Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Israel , who struck them and pursued them to Greater Sidon , to the Brook Misrephoth , and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward ; they struck them until they left none of them remaining . * And Joshua did to them as Jehovah had spoken to him : he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire . * And Joshua 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 . * And they struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword , utterly destroying them . There was no one left breathing ; and he burned Hazor with fire . * Thus all the cities of those kings , and all their kings , Joshua took and struck with the edge of the sword . He utterly destroyed them , as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded . * But as for the cities that stood on their mounds , Israel burned none of them , except Hazor only , which Joshua burned . * And all the spoils of these cities and the livestock , the sons of Israel took as plunder for themselves ; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them , and they left no one breathing . * As Jehovah had commanded Moses his servant , thus Moses had commanded Joshua , and thus Joshua did . He did not turn aside from anything of all that Jehovah had commanded Moses . * Thus Joshua took all this land : the mountains , all the south , all the land of Goshen , the lowland , and the plain ; the mountains of Israel and its lowlands , * from Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir , even as far as Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon . He captured all their kings , and struck them down and killed them . * Joshua made war many days with all those kings . * There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel , except the Hivites , the inhabitants of Gibeon . All the others they took in battle . * For it was of Jehovah to 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 , as Jehovah had commanded Moses . * And at that time Joshua came and cut off the 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 . * None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel ; they remained only in Gaza , in Gath , and in Ashdod . * Thus Joshua took the whole land , according to all that Jehovah had spoken to Moses ; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes . And the land rested from war .

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