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KINGDOMS
11:1-17
When King Jabin of Hazor heard what had happened, he sent messages to
the following kings: King Jobab of Madon; the king of Shimron; the king
of Acshaph; all the kings of the northern hill country; the kings in the Jor
dan Valley south of Galilee; the kings in the Galilean foothills; the kings
of N
aphoth-dor on the west; the kings of Canaan, both east and west; the
kings of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites in the hill
country, and the Hivites in the towns on the slopes of Mount Hermon in
the land of Mizpah.
All these kings came out to fight. Their combined armies formed a vast
horde. And with all their horses and chario ts, they covered the landscape
like the sand on the seashore. The kings joined forces and established their
camp around the water near Merom to fight against Israel.
Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them. By this time
tomorrow I will hand all of them over to Israel as dead men. Then you
must cripple their horses and burn their chariots.”
So Joshua and all his fighting men traveled to the water near Merom and
attacked suddenly. And the Lord gave them victory over their enemies.
The Israelites chased them as far as Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim,
and eastward into the valley of Mizpah, until not one enemy warrior was
left alive. Then Joshua crippled the horses and burned all the chariots, as
the Lord had instructed.
Joshua then turned back and captured Hazor and killed its king. (Hazor
had at one time been the capital of all these kingdoms.) The Israelites
completely destroyed every living thing in the city, leaving no survivors.
Not a single person was spared. And then Joshua burned the city.
Joshua slaughtered all the other kings and their people, completely destroying them, just as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded.
But the Israelites did not burn any of the towns built on mounds except
Hazor, which Joshua burned. And the Israelites took all the plunder and
livestock of the ravaged towns for themselves. But they killed all the
people, leaving no survivors. As the Lord had commanded his servant
Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua. And Joshua did as he was told, carefully obeying all the commands that the Lord had given to Moses.
So Joshua conquered the entire r egion—the hill country, the entire Negev,
the whole area around the town of Goshen, the western foothills, the Jor
dan Valley, the mountains of Israel, and the Galilean foothills. The Israelite
territory now extended all the way from Mount Halak, which leads up to
Seir in the south, as far north as Baal-gad at the foot of Mount Hermon
in the valley of Lebanon. Joshua killed all the kings of those territories,