Joshua, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Now it happened when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how
Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to
Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the
inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
{10:2} that they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as
one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all
its men were mighty. {10:3} Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem
sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king
of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying, {10:4} "Come up to me,
and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with
Joshua and with the children of Israel." {10:5} Therefore the five
kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the
king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered
themselves together, and went up, they and all their armies, and
encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it. {10:6} The men of
Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, "Don't abandon
your servants! Come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for
all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have
gathered together against us."
{10:7} So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war
with him, and all the mighty men of valor. {10:8} The LORD said to
Joshua, "Don't fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands.
Not a man of them will stand before you."
{10:9} Joshua therefore came on them suddenly. He went up from
Gilgal all night. {10:10} The LORD confused them before Israel, and he
killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the
way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to
Makkedah. {10:11} It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while
they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that the LORD cast down great
stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more
who died from the hailstones than who the children of Israel killed
with the sword.
{10:12} Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD
delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said
in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop
in the valley of Aijalon!"
{10:13} The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation
had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn't this written in the
book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn't
hurry to go down about a whole day. {10:14} There was no day like that
before it or after it, that the LORD listened to the voice of a man;
for the LORD fought for Israel.
{10:15} Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to
Gilgal. {10:16} These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave
at Makkedah. {10:17} Joshua was told, saying, "The five kings are
found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
{10:18} Joshua said, "Roll large stones to the mouth of the cave,
and set men by it to guard them; {10:19} but don't stay. Pursue your
enemies, and them from the rear. Don't allow them to enter into their
cities; for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand."
{10:20} It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had
finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were
consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the
fortified cities, {10:21} that all the people returned to the camp to
Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the
children of Israel. {10:22} Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the
cave, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me."
{10:23} They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to
him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth,
the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. {10:24} It happened, when
they brought those kings out to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the
men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with
him, "Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings."
They came near, and put their feet on their necks.
{10:25} Joshua said to them, "Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be
strong and courageous, for the LORD will do this to all your enemies
against whom you fight."
{10:26} Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged
them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.
{10:27} It happened at the time of the going down of the sun, that
Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them
into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great
stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.
{10:28} Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the
edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed them and all
the souls who were in it. He left none remaining. He did to the king
of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
{10:29} Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to
Libnah, and fought against Libnah. {10:30} The LORD delivered it also,
with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of
the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining in
it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
{10:31} Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to
Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it. {10:32} The
LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the
second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the
souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
{10:33} Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua
struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
{10:34} Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to
Eglon; and they encamped against it fought against it. {10:35} They
took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He
utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to
all that he had done to Lachish.
{10:36} Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to
Hebron; and they fought against it. {10:37} They took it, and struck
it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and
all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining, according to all
that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the
souls who were in it.
{10:38} Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and
fought against it. {10:39} He took it, with its king and all its
cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly
destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining. As he
had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had
done also to Libnah, and to its king. {10:40} So Joshua struck all the
land, the hill country, and the South, and the lowland, and the
slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but he utterly
destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD, the God of Israel,
commanded. {10:41} Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza,
and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon. {10:42} Joshua took all
these kings and their land at one time, because the LORD, the God of
Israel, fought for Israel. {10:43} Joshua returned, and all Israel
with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
{11:1} It happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, that he
sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of
Achshaph, {11:2} and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill
country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the
heights of Dor on the west, {11:3} to 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 the Hivite under Hermon in the land
of Mizpah. {11:4} They went out, they and all their armies with them,
many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude,
with very many horses and chariots. {11:5} All these kings met
together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom,
to fight with Israel.
{11:6} The LORD said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid because of them;
for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before
Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with
fire."
{11:7} So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against
them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them. {11:8} The
LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and
chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley
of Mizpeh eastward. They struck them until they left them none
remaining. {11:9} Joshua did to them as the LORD told him. He
hamstrung their horses and burnt their chariots with fire. {11:10}
Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king
with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.
{11:11} They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the
sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He
burnt Hazor with fire. {11:12} Joshua captured all the cities of those
kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the
sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded. {11:13} But as for the cities that stood on their mounds,
Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.
{11:14} The children of Israel took all the spoil of these cities,
with the livestock, as spoils for themselves; but every man they
struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They
didn't leave any who breathed.
{11:15} As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded
Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD
commanded Moses. {11:16} So Joshua captured all that land, the hill
country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the
Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;
{11:17} from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in
the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings,
struck them, and put them to death. {11:18} Joshua made war a long
time with all those kings. {11:19} There was not a city that made
peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants
of Gibeon. They took all in battle. {11:20} For it was of the LORD to
harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might
utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might
destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses. {11:21} 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: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their
cities. {11:22} There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the
children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some
remain. {11:23} So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that
the LORD spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to
Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest
from war.
{12:1} Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of
Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the
sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the
Arabah eastward: {12:2} Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in
Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of
the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the
river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon; {12:3} and the
Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the
Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on
the south, under the slopes of Pisgah: {12:4} and the border of Og
king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth
and at Edrei, {12:5} and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in
all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and
half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
{12:6} Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel
struck them. Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession to
the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
{12:7} These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of
Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley
of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it
to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
{12:8} in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and
in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite,
the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite: {12:9} the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is
beside Bethel, one; {12:10} the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of
Hebron, one; {12:11} the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish,
one; {12:12} the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; {12:13}
the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; {12:14} the king of
Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; {12:15} the king of Libnah, one;
the king of Adullam, one; {12:16} the king of Makkedah, one; the king
of Bethel, one; {12:17} the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher,
one; {12:18} the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;
{12:19} the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; {12:20} the
king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; {12:21} the
king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; {12:22} the king of
Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; {12:23} the king of
Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
{12:24} the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.
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