[1] Now Jabin, king of Hazor, hearing of these things, sent to Jobab, king
of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, [2] And
to the kings on the north in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of
Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the highlands of Dor on the west,
[3] And to the Canaanites on the east and on the west, and to the Amorites
and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill-country,
and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah. [4] And they went out,
they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the
sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number. [5] And
all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the
waters of Merom, to make war on Israel. [6] And the Lord said to Joshua,
Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up
dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and
their war-carriages burned with fire. [7] So Joshua and all the men of war
with him came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and made an
attack on them. [8] And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Israel, and
they overcame them driving them back to great Zidon and to Misrephoth-maim
and into the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they put them all to death,
no man got away safely. [9] And Joshua did to them as the Lord had said to
him; he had the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages
burned with fire. [10] At that time, Joshua went on to take Hazor and put
its king to the sword: for in earlier times Hazor was the chief of all
those kingdoms. [11] And they put every person in it to death without
mercy, giving every living thing up to the curse, and burning Hazor. [12]
And all the towns of these kings, and all the kings, Joshua took, and put
them to the sword: he gave them up to the curse, as Moses, the servant of
the Lord, had said. [13] As for the towns made on hills of earth, not one
was burned by Israel but Hazor, which was burned by Joshua. [14] And all
the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel
kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till
their destruction was complete, and there was no one living. [15] As the
Lord had given orders to Moses his servant, so Moses gave orders to Joshua,
and so Joshua did; every order which the Lord had given to Moses was done.
[16] So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country and all the South, and
all the land of Goshen, and the lowland and the Arabah, the hill-country of
Israel and its lowland; [17] From Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir, as
far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all their
kings he overcame and put to death. [18] For a long time Joshua made war on
all those kings. [19] Not one town made peace with the children of Israel,
but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war. [20] For the
Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he
might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might
come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses. [21] And Joshua came
at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron,
in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua
gave them and their towns to the curse. [22] Not one of the Anakim was to
be seen in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and
in Ashdod, some were still living. [23] So Joshua took all the land, as the
Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it to the children of Israel as
their heritage, making division of it among them by their tribes. And the
land had rest from war.
