Joshua 11:8-23 ▼

8 And YHWH delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them down and they chased them to Greater Sidon and to Misrephoth-maim, and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward. And they struck them down until he did not leave to them a remnant.

9 And Joshua did to them as YHWH had told him; their horses he hamstrung and their chariots he burned with the fire.

10 And Joshua turned back at that time, and he took Hazor, and he struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all these kingdoms.

11 And they struck every soul that was in it with the mouth of the sword, devoting them to destruction. There was not left anyone breathing. And he burned Hazor with the fire.

12 And all the cities of these kings and all their kings Joshua took, and he struck them with the mouth of the sword. He devoted them to destruction, as Moses the servant of YHWH had commanded.

13 Yet any cities that stood on their mounds Israel did not burn—except Hazor only, which Joshua burned.

14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the livestock, the sons of Israel plundered for themselves. But every man they struck with the mouth of the sword, until they had completely destroyed them; and they left not anyone breathing.

15 As YHWH had commanded Moses His servant, so Moses had commanded Joshua. And so Joshua did; he left undone not a thing of all that YHWH had commanded Moses.

16 And Joshua took all this land: The hill country, and all the Negev, and all the land of Goshen, and the Shephelah, and the plain, and the mountains of Israel, and its lowland,

17 from Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, and to Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And all their kings He captured, and struck them and killed them.

18 Many days Joshua made war with all these kings.

19 There was not a city that made peace with the sons of Israel—except the Hivite dwellers of Gibeon—they took all in battle.

20 For it was of YHWH to strengthen their hearts to engage in battle with Israel, in order that they would be devoted to destruction and that they would not receive favor, but that he might destroy them as YHWH had commanded Moses.

21 And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel with their cities. Joshua devoted them to destruction.

22 None were left of the Anakim in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did they remain.

23 And Joshua took all the land, according to all that YHWH had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.