Conquests in Northern Canaan

Joshua 11

1 When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he z sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, 2 and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the a Arabah south of b Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and c in Naphoth-dor on the d west, 3 to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the e Jebusites in the hill country, and the f Hivites under g Hermon in the land of h Mizpah. 4 And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number i like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots. 5 And all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.

6 And the Lord said to Joshua, j "Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall k hamstring their horses and burn their l chariots with fire." 7 So Joshua and all his warriors came m suddenly against them by the waters of Merom and fell upon them. 8 And the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as n Great Sidon and o Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of p Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining. 9 And Joshua did to them q just as the Lord said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

10 And Joshua turned back at that time and captured r Hazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms. 11 And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction; 1 s there was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire. 12 And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, t just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. 13 But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor alone; that Joshua burned. 14 And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the people of Israel took for their plunder. But every man they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed. 15 u Just as the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, v so Moses commanded Joshua, w and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

16 So Joshua took all that land, x the hill country and all the Negeb and y all the land of Goshen z and the lowland z and the Arabah a and the hill country of Israel and its lowland 17 b from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as c Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below d Mount Hermon. And he captured e all their kings and struck them and put them to death. 18 Joshua made war f a long time with all those kings. 19 There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel except g the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took them all in battle. 20 For it was the Lord's doing h to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, i just as the Lord commanded Moses.

21 And Joshua came at that time and cut off j 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 devoted them to destruction with their cities. 22 There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, k in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain. 23 So Joshua took the whole land, l according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. m And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel n according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.

  1. Cross References
    Joshua 10:3
    So 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.
  2. Cross References
    Joshua 3:16
    The waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.
    Deuteronomy 1:1
    These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
  3. Cross References
    Joshua 12:3
    And the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.
    Joshua 13:27
    And in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.
    Joshua 19:35
    The fortified cities are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth.
    Numbers 34:11
    And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.
  4. Cross References
    Joshua 12:23
    The king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee, one.
  5. Cross References
    Joshua 17:11
    Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
    Judges 1:27
    Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
  6. Cross References
    Joshua 15:63
    But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
  7. Cross References
    Judges 3:3
    These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
  8. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 3:8
    So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon
  9. Cross References
    Joshua 11:8
    And the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining.
    Genesis 31:49
    And Mizpah, for he said, "The Lord watch between you and me, when we are out of one another's sight.
  10. Cross References
    Genesis 22:17
    I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
    Genesis 32:12
    But you said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'
    Judges 7:12
    And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.
    1 Samuel 13:5
    And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
  11. Cross References
    Joshua 10:8
    And the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you.
  12. Cross References
    Joshua 11:9
    And Joshua did to them just as the Lord said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
    2 Samuel 8:4
    And David took from him 1,700 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left enough for 100 chariots.
    1 Chronicles 18:4
    And David took from him 1,000 chariots, 7,000 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for 100 chariots.
    Genesis 49:6
    Let my soul come not into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen.
  13. Cross References
    Joshua 17:16 - 18
    The people of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.
    Deuteronomy 20:1
    When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
    Judges 1:19
    And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron.
    Judges 4:3
    Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
  14. Cross References
    Joshua 10:9
    So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal.
  15. Cross References
    Joshua 19:28
    Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, as far as Sidon the Great.
  16. Cross References
    Joshua 13:6
    All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
  17. Cross References
    Joshua 11:3
    To the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
  18. Cross References
    Joshua 11:6
    And the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.
  19. Cross References
    Judges 4:2
    And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
  20. Cross References
    Joshua 10:40
    So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel commanded.
  21. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 20:16 - 17
    But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes.
  22. Cross References
    Exodus 34:11 - 12
    Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  23. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 7:2
    And when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
  24. Cross References
    Joshua 1:7
    Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
  25. Cross References
    Joshua 12:8
    In the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):
  26. Cross References
    Joshua 10:41
    And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, as far as Gibeon.
    Joshua 15:51
    Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages.
  27. Cross References
    Joshua 11:2
    And to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west.
  28. Cross References
    Joshua 11:2
    And to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west.
  29. Cross References
    Joshua 11:21
    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. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities.
  30. Cross References
    Joshua 12:7
    And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments.
  31. Cross References
    Joshua 12:7
    And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments.
    Joshua 13:5
    And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.
  32. Cross References
    Joshua 11:3
    To the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
  33. Cross References
    Joshua 12:7
    And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments.
    Deuteronomy 7:24
    And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven. No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.
  34. Cross References
    Joshua 14:7
    I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
    Joshua 14:10
    And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
  35. Cross References
    Joshua 9:3
    But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai.
    Joshua 9:7
    But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?
  36. Cross References
    Exodus 4:21
    And the Lord said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.
  37. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 20:16 - 17
    But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes.
  38. Cross References
    Joshua 15:13 - 14
    According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
    Numbers 13:22 - 23
    They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. ( Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
    Deuteronomy 1:28
    Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."
  39. Cross References
    1 Samuel 17:4
    And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
  40. Cross References
    Numbers 34:2 - 12
    Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders).
  41. Cross References
    Joshua 14:1 - 19:1
    These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.
    Numbers 26:52 - 56
    The Lord spoke to Moses, saying.
  42. Cross References
    Joshua 12:7
    And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments.
    Joshua 18:10
    And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord. And there Joshua apportioned the land to the people of Israel, to each his portion.
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