[1] When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon,
and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Ach'shaph, [2] and to the
kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of
Chin'neroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west, [3] to the
Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the
Per'izzites, and the Jeb'usites in the hill country, and the Hivites under
Hermon in the land of Mizpah. [4] And they came out, with all their troops,
a great host, in number like the sand that is upon the seashore, with very
many horses and chariots. [5] And all these kings joined their forces, and
came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.
[6] And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at
this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel; you shall
hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire." [7] So Joshua
came suddenly upon them with all his people of war, by the waters of Merom,
and fell upon them. [8] And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who
smote them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Mis'rephoth-ma'im, and
eastward as far as the valley of Mizpeh; and they smote them, until they
left none remaining. [9] And Joshua did to them as the LORD bade him; he
hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire. [10] And
Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and smote its king with
the sword; for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms. [11] And
they put to the sword all who were in it, utterly destroying them; there
was none left that breathed, and he burned Hazor with fire. [12] And all
the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took, and smote them
with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them, as Moses the servant
of the LORD had commanded. [13] But none of the cities that stood on mounds
did Israel burn, except Hazor only; that Joshua burned. [14] And all the
spoil of these cities and the cattle, the people of Israel took for their
booty; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had
destroyed them, and they did not leave any that breathed. [15] 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]
So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all
the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of
Israel and its lowland [17] from Mount Halak, that rises toward Se'ir, as
far as Ba'al-gad in the valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And he took
all their kings, and smote them, and put them to death. [18] Joshua made
war a long time with all those kings. [19] There was not a city that made
peace with the people of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of
Gibeon; they took all in battle. [20] For it was the LORD's doing to harden
their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that
they should be utterly destroyed, and should receive no mercy but be
exterminated, as the LORD commanded Moses. [21] And Joshua came at that
time, and wiped out the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from
Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the
hill country of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
[22] There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel;
only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain. [23] So Joshua took
the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses; and
Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal
allotments. And the land had rest from war.
