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Joshua 11 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Northern Conquest
Joshua Conquers the Entire Land
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:1 - And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:2 - and to the kings who were from the north, in the mountains, in the plain south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:3 - to the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:4 - So they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:5 - And when all these kings had met together, they came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:6 - But the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:7 - So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and they attacked them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:8 - And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them and chased them to Greater Sidon, to the Brook Misrephoth,[fn] and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until they left none of them remaining.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:9 - So Joshua did to them as the LORD had told him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:10 - Joshua turned back at that time and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor was formerly the head of all those kingdoms.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:11 - And they struck all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was none left breathing. Then he burned Hazor with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - So all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took and struck with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:13 - But as for the cities that stood on their mounds,[fn] Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only, which Joshua burned.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the children of Israel took as booty for themselves; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they left none breathing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:15 - 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.
Summary of Joshua’s Conquests
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:16 - Thus Joshua took all this land: the mountain country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, and the Jordan plain[fn]—the mountains of Israel and its lowlands,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:17 - from Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, even as far as Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings, and struck them down and killed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:18 - Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:19 - There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the others they took in battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20 - For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that He might utterly destroy them, and that they might receive no mercy, but that He might destroy them, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:21 - And at that time Joshua came and cut off the Anakim from the mountains: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:22 - None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:23 - So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.
NKJV Footnotes
Hebrew Misrephoth Maim
Hebrew tel, a heap of successive city ruins
Hebrew arabah
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