Joshua 11

Conquests in Northern Canaan

1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things, that he a sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king b 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 c Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights d of Dor on the west, 3 to the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the e Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, f and the Hivite below g Hermon h in the land of Mizpah. 4 So they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people i as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots. 5 And when all these kings had 1 met together, they came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.

6 But the LORD said to Joshua, j "Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You shall k 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 2 Greater l Sidon, to the 3 Brook m Misrephoth, 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, n utterly destroying them. There was none left o 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, p as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded. 13 But as for the cities that stood on their 4 mounds, 5 Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only, which Joshua burned. 14 And all the q 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 r As the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so s Moses commanded Joshua, and t so Joshua did. 6 He left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.

16 Thus Joshua took all this land: u the mountain country, all the South, v all the land of Goshen, the lowland, and the Jordan 7 plain - the mountains of Israel and its lowlands, 17 w from 8 Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, even as far as Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured x 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 y the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the others they took in battle. 20 For z it was of the LORD 9 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, a as the LORD had commanded Moses.

21 And at that time Joshua came and cut off b 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 c in Gaza, in Gath, d and in Ashdod. 23 So Joshua took the whole land, e according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel f according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land g rested from war.

  1. Cross References
    Joshua 10:3
    Therefore AdoniZe'dek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying.
  2. Cross References
    Joshua 19:15
    Included were Kattath, Nahallal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
  3. Cross References
    Numbers 34:11
    The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; the border shall go down and reach to the eastern side of the Sea of Chinnereth.
  4. Cross References
    Joshua 17:11
    And in Issachar and in Asher, Manasseh had Beth Shean and its towns, Ibleam and its towns, the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, the inhabitants of En Dor and its towns, the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns - three hilly regions.
    Judges 1:27
    However, 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 were determined to dwell in that land.
    1 Kings 4:11
    BenAbinadab, in all the regions of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife.
  5. Cross References
    Joshua 9:1
    And it came to pass when all the kings who were on this side of the Jordan, in the hills and in the lowland and in all the coasts of the Great Sea toward Lebanon - the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite - heard about it.
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 7:1
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you.
    Judges 3:3
    Namely, five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who dwelt in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
    Judges 3:5
    Thus the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
    1 Kings 9:20
    All the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel -
  7. Cross References
    Joshua 11:17
    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.
    Joshua 13:5
    The land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath.
    Joshua 13:11
    Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salcah.
  8. Cross References
    Genesis 31:49
    Also Mizpah, because he said, "May the LORD watch between you and me when we are absent one from another.
  9. Cross References
    Genesis 22:17
    Blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
    Genesis 32:12
    "For You said, 'I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude."'
    Judges 7:12
    Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the people of the East, were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude.
    1 Samuel 13:5
    Then the Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven.
  10. Cross References
    Joshua 10:8
    And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hand; not a man of them shall stand before you.
  11. Cross References
    2 Samuel 8:4
    David took from him one thousand chariots, seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. Also David hamstrung all the chariot horses, except that he spared enough of them for one hundred chariots.
  12. Cross References
    Genesis 49:13
    Zebulun shall dwell by the haven of the sea; He shall become a haven for ships, And his border shall adjoin Sidon.
  13. Cross References
    Joshua 13:6
    All the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon as far as the Brook Misrephoth, and all the Sidonians - them I will drive out from before the children of Israel; only divide it by lot to Israel as an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
  14. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 20:16
    But of the cities of these peoples which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive.
  15. Cross References
    Joshua 10:40
    So Joshua conquered all the land: the mountain country and the South and the lowland and the wilderness slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.
  16. Cross References
    Numbers 33:50 - 56
    Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying.
    Deuteronomy 7:2
    And when the LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.
    Deuteronomy 20:16
    But of the cities of these peoples which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive.
  17. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 20:14 - 18
    But the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and you shall eat the enemies' plunder which the LORD your God gives you.
  18. Cross References
    Exodus 34:10 - 17
    And He said: "Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD. For it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
  19. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 31:7
    Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.
    Deuteronomy 31:8
    "And the LORD, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed."
  20. Cross References
    Joshua 1:7
    Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.
  21. Cross References
    Joshua 12:8
    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:
  22. Cross References
    Joshua 10:40
    So Joshua conquered all the land: the mountain country and the South and the lowland and the wilderness slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.
    Joshua 10:41
    And Joshua conquered them from Kadesh Barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even as far as Gibeon.
  23. Cross References
    Joshua 12:7
    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.
  24. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 7:24
    And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; no one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.
  25. Cross References
    Joshua 9:3 - 7
    But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai.
  26. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:30
    But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.
  27. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 20:16
    But of the cities of these peoples which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive.
    Deuteronomy 20:17
    But you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the LORD your God has commanded you.
  28. Cross References
    Numbers 13:22
    And they went up through the South and came to ...
    Numbers 13:33
    "There we saw the giants ( the descendants of A...
    Deuteronomy 1:28
    'Where can we go up? Our brethren have discoura...
    Deuteronomy 9:2
    "a people great and tall, the descendants of th...
    Joshua 15:13
    Now to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a sha...
    Joshua 15:14
    Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from the...
  29. Cross References
    1 Samuel 17:4
    And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
  30. Cross References
    Joshua 15:46
    From Ekron to the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages.
    1 Samuel 5:1
    Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
    Isaiah 20:1
    In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it.
  31. Cross References
    Exodus 33:2
    And I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
    Numbers 34:2 - 15
    Command the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance - the land of Canaan to its boundaries.
  32. Cross References
    Numbers 26:53
    To these the land shall be divided as an inheritance, according to the number of names.
    Joshua 14:1
    These are the areas which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed as an inheritance to them.
    Joshua 15:1
    So this was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families: The border of Edom at the Wilderness of Zin southward was the extreme southern boundary.
  33. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:9
    For as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.
    Deuteronomy 12:10
    But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety.
    Deuteronomy 25:19
    Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.
    Hebrews 4:8
    For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.
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