Joshua 11-12New King James Version (NKJV)
The Northern Conquest
11 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, 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, 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. 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. 5 And when all these kings had met
together, they came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight against
Israel.
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.” 7
So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the
waters of Merom, and they attacked them. 8 And the Lord delivered them into the
hand of Israel, who defeated them and chased them to Greater Sidon, to the
Brook Misrephoth,[a] and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward; they attacked them
until they left none of them remaining. 9 So Joshua did to them as the Lord had
told him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
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. 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.
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. 13 But as for the cities that
stood on their mounds,[b] Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only, which
Joshua burned. 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. 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
16 Thus Joshua took all this land: the mountain country, all
the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, and the Jordan plain[c]—the mountains
of Israel and its lowlands, 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. 18 Joshua made war a long
time with all those kings. 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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
The Kings Conquered by Moses
12 These are the kings of the land whom the children of
Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed on the other side of the Jordan
toward the rising of the sun, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the
eastern Jordan plain: 2 One king was Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in
Heshbon and ruled half of Gilead, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River
Arnon, from the middle of that river, even as far as the River Jabbok, which is
the border of the Ammonites, 3 and the eastern Jordan plain from the Sea of
Chinneroth as far as the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), the road to Beth
Jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah. 4 The other king was Og
king of Bashan and his territory, who was of the remnant of the giants, who
dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, 5 and reigned over Mount Hermon, over Salcah,
over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites,
and over half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
6 These Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of
Israel had conquered; and Moses the servant of the Lord had given it as a
possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
The Kings Conquered by Joshua
7 And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and
the children of Israel conquered on this side of the Jordan, on the west, from
Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon as far as Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir,
which Joshua gave to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their
divisions, 8 in the mountain country, in the lowlands, in the Jordan plain, in
the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the South—the Hittites, the Amorites, the
Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: 9 the king of
Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; 10 the king of Jerusalem,
one; the king of Hebron, one; 11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish,
one; 12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; 13 the king of Debir,
one; the king of Geder, one; 14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
15 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; 16 the king of Makkedah,
one; the king of Bethel, one; 17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher,
one; 18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; 19 the king of
Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; 20 the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king
of Achshaph, one; 21 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; 22 the
king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; 23 the king of Dor in
the heights of Dor, one; the king of the people of Gilgal, one; 24 the king of
Tirzah, one—all the kings, thirty-one.
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