Joshua 11

1When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,Cross-references: Josh 10:3 · Josh 11:10 · Josh 12:19 · Josh 19:36 · Judg 4:2 · Judg 4:17 · +5 more

2and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,Cross-references: Num 34:11 · Josh 10:6 · Josh 10:40 · Josh 11:21 · Josh 12:3 · Josh 12:23 · +6 more

3to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.Cross-references: Gen 31:49 · Num 13:29 · Deut 4:48 · Deut 7:1 · Josh 13:11 · Josh 15:38 · +19 more

4They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.Cross-references: Gen 22:17 · Gen 32:12 · Judg 7:12 · 1Sam 13:5 · 2Sam 17:11 · 1Ki 4:20

5All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.Cross-references: Ps 3:1 · Ps 118:10 · Isa 8:9 · Rev 16:14

6Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”Cross-references: Deut 7:16 · Josh 3:5 · Josh 10:8 · Josh 11:9 · Judg 20:28 · 1Sam 11:9 · +11 more

7So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.Cross-references: Josh 10:9 · 1Thess 5:2

8Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.Cross-references: Gen 10:15 · Gen 49:13 · Josh 11:3 · Josh 13:6 · Josh 19:28 · Josh 21:44 · +1 more

9Joshua did to them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.Cross-references: Josh 11:6 · Ezek 39:9

10Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.Cross-references: Josh 11:1 · Judg 4:2

11They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.Cross-references: Deut 20:16 · Josh 10:40

12Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.Cross-references: Num 33:50 · Deut 7:2 · Deut 20:16 · Josh 8:8 · Josh 8:31 · Josh 9:24 · +7 more

13But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.Cross-references: Jer 30:18

14The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed.Cross-references: Num 31:9 · Num 31:11 · Deut 6:10 · Deut 20:14 · Josh 8:27 · Josh 10:40 · +1 more

15As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.Cross-references: Ex 34:11 · Ex 39:42 · Deut 4:2 · Deut 4:5 · Deut 7:2 · Deut 12:32 · +12 more

16So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same,Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Num 34:2 · Deut 34:2 · Josh 9:1 · Josh 10:41 · Josh 11:2 · +5 more

17from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck them, and put them to death.Cross-references: Gen 32:3 · Deut 2:1 · Deut 7:24 · Deut 33:2 · Josh 1:4 · Josh 11:3 · +2 more

18Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.Cross-references: Josh 11:23 · Josh 14:7

19There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle.Cross-references: Josh 9:3

20For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.Cross-references: Ex 4:21 · Ex 9:16 · Ex 14:17 · Deut 2:30 · Deut 7:16 · Deut 20:16 · +9 more

21Joshua came at that time, and cut off 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.Cross-references: Num 13:22 · Num 13:33 · Deut 1:28 · Deut 2:21 · Deut 9:2 · Josh 10:42 · +12 more

22There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.Cross-references: Josh 15:46 · Judg 3:3 · 1Sam 5:1 · 1Sam 17:4 · 2Sam 21:16 · 1Ki 2:39 · +6 more

23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.Cross-references: Ex 23:27 · Ex 34:11 · Num 26:52 · Num 34:2 · Deut 1:38 · Deut 11:23 · +11 more