Chapter 11
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When Jabin king of Hazor heard this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph.
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and to the kings from the north, in the hill country and in the plains of Moab south of the Sea of Chinnereth and in the lowlands and in the Naphoth-Dor to the west.
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to the Canaanites on the east of the waters, the Amorites, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
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And they went out, they and all their camps with them, with a people as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and very many horses and chariots.
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And all these kings gathered together, and they came and encamped together at the Waters of Merom to fight with Israel.
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And the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for tomorrow at this time I will give all of them slain before Israel; you shall make their horses barren, and you shall burn their chariots in fire."
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And Joshua came and all the people of war with him against them to the waters of Merom suddenly, and they fell on them.
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And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them and pursued them as far as Great Sidon and as far as the Waters of Hazor and as far as the Valley of Mizpah eastward, and they struck them until they left no survivor among them.
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And Joshua did to them just as the LORD had said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
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Joshua returned at that time, captured Hazor and its king, and struck them with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all these kingdoms.
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They struck with the sword everything that breathed in it; nothing that breathed remained of the herem; and they burned Hazor with fire.
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And Joshua captured all the cities of these kings and all their kings, and he struck them down with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
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Only all the cities standing on their mounds Israel did not burn, except Hazor alone—Joshua burned it.
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And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock the sons of Israel plundered for themselves; only they struck down every human with the sword until they had destroyed them, leaving no soul alive.
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Just as the LORD commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he did not remove a word from all that the LORD commanded Moses.
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Joshua took all this land: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the Shephelah, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and its Shephelah.
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from the smooth mountain the Helek ascending Seir and unto Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon and all their kings he captured and struck them and put them to death.
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Joshua made war against all these kings for many days.
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There was no city that made peace with the sons of Israel except the Hivite inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all the others in warfare.
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For it was from the LORD to strengthen their hearts to meet Israel in war, in order to devote them to destruction so as not to spare them, in order to destroy them just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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And Joshua 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 with their cities; Joshua utterly destroyed them.
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There were no giants remaining in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did they remain.
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And Joshua took all the land according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions for their tribes, and the land rested from war.