Joshua 11:1-16

1Then it came about, when Jabin king of 1Hazor heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon and to the king of Shimron and to the king of Achshaph, 2and to the kings who were of the north in the hill country, and in the 2Arabah--south of 3Chinneroth and in the lowland and on the 4heights of Dor on the west-- 3to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite in the hill country, and 5the Hivite 6at the foot of 7Hermon in the land of 8Mizpeh. 4They came out, they and all their armies with them, 9as many people as the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots. 5So all of these kings having agreed to meet, came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

6Then the Lord said to Joshua, “10Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow at this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel; you shall 11hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.” 7So Joshua and all the people of war with him came upon them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and attacked them. 8The Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, so that they 12defeated them, and pursued them as far as Great Sidon and 13Misrephoth-maim and the valley of 14Mizpeh to the east; and they struck them until no survivor was left to them. 9Joshua did to them as the Lord had told him; he 15hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

10Then Joshua turned back at that time, and captured 16Hazor and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor formerly was the head of all these kingdoms. 1117They struck every person who was in it with the edge of the sword, 18utterly destroying them; there was no one left who breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire. 12Joshua captured all the cities of these kings, and all their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; just 19as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. 13However, Israel did not burn any cities that stood on their mounds, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned. 1420All the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left no one who breathed. 15Just 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.

16Thus Joshua took all that land: 21the hill country and all the 22Negev, all that land of Goshen, the lowland, 23the Arabah, the hill country of Israel and its lowland