Joshua 11

Northern Kings Defeated

1 When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Akshaph,
2 and to the northern kings who were in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in Naphoth Dor on the west;
3 to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below Hermon in the region of Mizpah.
4 They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and chariots—a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.
5 All these kings joined forces and made camp 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 all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.”
7 So Joshua and his whole army came against them suddenly at the Waters of Merom and attacked them,
8 and the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel. They defeated them and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim, and to the Valley of Mizpah on the east, until no survivors were left.
9 Joshua did to them as the LORD had directed: He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.
10 At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword. (Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.)
11 Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed[a] them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself.
12 Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
13 Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds—except Hazor, which Joshua burned.
14 The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed.
15 As the LORD commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.
16 So Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the whole region of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with their foothills,
17 from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and put them to death.
18 Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time.
19 Except for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the Israelites, who took them all in battle.
20 For it was the LORD himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
21 At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns.
22 No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive.
23 So Joshua took the entire land, just as the LORD had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.

Cross References 52

  • 1. Jdg 4:2,7,23; Psalms 83:9
  • 2. ver 10; Joshua 12:19; Joshua 15:23,25; Joshua 19:36; Judges 4:2,17; 1 Samuel 12:9; 1 Kings 9:15; 2 Kings 15:29; Nehemiah 11:33; Jeremiah 49:28,33
  • 3. Joshua 19:15
  • 4. Joshua 12:20; Joshua 19:25
  • 5. ver 16; S Deuteronomy 1:1; Joshua 12:1; Joshua 18:18; Joshua 12:3
  • 6. S Numbers 34:11; Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 19:35; 1 Kings 15:20
  • 7. Joshua 12:23; Joshua 17:11; Judges 1:27; 1 Kings 4:11; 1 Chronicles 7:29
  • 8. S Joshua 3:10
  • 9. Numbers 13:17
  • 10. S Exodus 3:8; Deuteronomy 7:1; Judges 3:3,5; 1 Kings 9:20
  • 11. S Deuteronomy 3:8
  • 12. ver 8; S Genesis 31:49; Joshua 15:38; Joshua 18:26; Judges 11:11; Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1; 1 Samuel 7:5,6; 1 Kings 15:22; 2 Kings 25:23
  • 13. S Genesis 12:2; Judges 7:12; 1 Samuel 13:5
  • 14. Judges 5:19
  • 15. ver 7
  • 16. S Joshua 2:24; Joshua 10:8
  • 17. S Genesis 49:6; 2 Samuel 8:4
  • 18. ver 9
  • 19. S Genesis 10:15; S Judges 18:7
  • 20. Joshua 13:6
  • 21. Isaiah 3:25; Jeremiah 41:2; Jeremiah 44:18
  • 22. S Deuteronomy 7:2
  • 23. Deuteronomy 20:16-17
  • 24. S Numbers 31:10
  • 25. Numbers 33:50-52; Deuteronomy 7:2
  • 26. S Deuteronomy 20:16; Numbers 31:11-12
  • 27. Exodus 34:11; Deuteronomy 7:2; S Joshua 1:7
  • 28. Numbers 13:17
  • 29. S Deuteronomy 1:7
  • 30. S Joshua 10:41
  • 31. S Genesis 14:6; S Numbers 24:18; S Deuteronomy 33:2
  • 32. Joshua 13:5
  • 33. S Deuteronomy 3:25; Joshua 12:7
  • 34. Deuteronomy 3:9; Joshua 12:8
  • 35. Deuteronomy 7:24
  • 36. S Joshua 9:1
  • 37. S Joshua 9:3
  • 38. S Joshua 9:15
  • 39. S Exodus 4:21; S Exodus 14:17; Romans 9:18
  • 40. Deuteronomy 7:16; Judges 14:4
  • 41. S Numbers 13:22,33; Deuteronomy 9:2
  • 42. S Joshua 10:3
  • 43. Joshua 15:50
  • 44. S Genesis 10:19
  • 45. Joshua 12:17; Joshua 19:13; 1 Samuel 5:8; 1 Samuel 17:4; 1 Kings 2:39; 2 Kings 14:25; 1 Chronicles 8:13; Amos 6:2
  • 46. Joshua 15:47; 1 Samuel 5:1; Isaiah 20:1
  • 47. Joshua 21:43-45; Nehemiah 9:24
  • 48. S Deuteronomy 1:38; Deuteronomy 12:9-10; S Deuteronomy 25:19; S Joshua 13:7
  • 49. S Numbers 26:53
  • 50. Psalms 105:44
  • 51. S Exodus 33:14
  • 52. Joshua 14:15

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verses 12, 20 and 21.

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