Joshua 11:9-19

9 Joshua did to them as the LORD had told him; he ¹hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

10 Then Joshua turned back at that time, and captured ²Hazor and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor formerly was the head of all these kingdoms.

11 ³They struck every person who was in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was no * one left who breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire.

12 Joshua captured all the cities of these kings, and all their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; just ⁴as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.

13 However, Israel did not burn any cities that stood on their mounds, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned.

14 ⁵All the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left no one who breathed.

15 Just as the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he left nothing * undone * of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.

16 Thus Joshua took all that land: ⁶the hill country and all the Negev, all that land of Goshen, the lowland, ⁷the Arabah, the hill country of Israel and its lowland

17 from ⁸Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir, even as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. And he captured ⁹all their kings and struck them down and put them to death.

18 Joshua waged war a long time with all these kings.

19 There was not a city which made peace with the sons of Israel except ¹⁰the Hivites living in Gibeon; they took them all in battle.

Joshua 11:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 11

This chapter relates how that the kings of the northern parts of Canaan combine together against Joshua, Jos 11:1-5; and that the Lord encouraged him to fight with them, and did deliver them into his hands, who, with all their people, were smitten by him, Jos 11:6-11; and how that he took their cities, and destroyed the inhabitants of them, and took the spoil of them for a prey, Jos 11:12-15; and so became master of the whole country, both southern and northern, which is described Jos 11:16-20; and the chapter is concluded with an account of his cutting off the Anakim from various parts, which finished the conquest of the whole land, Jos 10:21-23.

Cross References

• 1. Joshua 11:6
• 2. Joshua 11:1
• 3. Deuteronomy 20:16
• 4. Numbers 33:50-52; Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 20:16
• 5. Numbers 31:11, 12
• 6. Joshua 10:40, 41
• 7. Joshua 11:2
• 8. Joshua 12:7
• 9. Deuteronomy 7:24
• 10. Joshua 9:3, 7

Footnotes

• [a] Or "putting them under the ban," and so throughout the ch
• [b] I.e. South country
• [c] Lit "under"