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you shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>So Joshua and all the people of war with him came upon them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and attacked them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> delivered them into the hand of Israel, so that they defeated them, and pursued them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim and the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they struck them until no survivor was left to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Joshua did to them as the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Joshua turned back at that time, and captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor formerly was the head of all these kingdoms. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>They struck every person who was in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying <i>them;</i> there was no one left who breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Joshua captured all the cities of these kings, and all their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, <i>and</i> utterly destroyed them; just as Moses the servant of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had commanded. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>However, Israel did not burn any cities that stood on their mounds, except Hazor alone, <i>which</i> Joshua burned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>All 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Just as the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he left nothing undone of all that the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had commanded Moses. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Thus Joshua took all that land: the hill country and all the Negev, all that land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel and its lowland <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>from Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir, even as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. And he captured all their kings and struck them down and put them to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Joshua waged war a long time with all these kings. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>There was not a city which made peace with the sons of Israel except the Hivites living in Gibeon; they took them all in battle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>For it was of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> to harden their hearts, to meet Israel in battle in order that he might utterly destroy them, that they might receive no mercy, but that he might destroy them, just as the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had commanded Moses. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Then 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>There were no Anakim left in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod some remained. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/11-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus the land had rest from war. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/joshua/11.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And all these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/joshua/11.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And all these kings assembled together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/joshua/11.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And all these kings met together, and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/joshua/11.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And all these kings met together; and they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/joshua/11.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And when all these kings were met together, they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/joshua/11.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/joshua/11.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and all these kings are met together, and they come and encamp together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_57_caesarea_stratos_tower.htm">Caesarea. Strato's Tower. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The Arabian interpreter thinks the first name of this city was Hazor, Joshua 11:1. The Jews, Ekron, Zephaniah 2:4. "R. Abhu saith," (he was of Caesarea,) "Ekron shall be rooted out"; this is Caesarea, the daughter of Edom, which is situated among things profane. She was a goad, sticking in Israel, in the days of the Grecians. But when the kingdom of the Asmonean family prevailed, it overcame her, &c. R. Josi Bar Chaninah saith, What is that that is written, 'And Ekron shall be as a Jebusite?' (Zech <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_57_caesarea_stratos_tower.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_69_the_lake_samochonitis.htm">The Lake Samochonitis [Or Semechonitis. ]</a><br></span><span class="snippet">In the Holy Scriptures it is the 'Water of Merom,' Joshua 11:5. In the Babylonian Talmudists it is 'The Sibbechean sea.' Hence is that, "Jordan ariseth out of the cave of Paneas, and flows into the Sibbechean sea." In the Jerusalem Talmudists, sometimes it is 'The sea of Cobebo,' as we have noted before; and sometimes 'The sea of Samaco'; whence in other languages it is 'Samachonitis.' "The lake Semechonitis is thirty furlongs in breadth, and sixty in length. The fens of it are stretched out unto <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_69_the_lake_samochonitis.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_4/chapter_ithe_first_chaldaean_empire.htm">The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Syria: the part played by it in the ancient world--Babylon and the first Chaldaean empire--The dominion of the Hyksos: Ahmosis. Some countries seem destined from their origin to become the battle-fields of the contending nations which environ them. Into such regions, and to their cost, neighbouring peoples come from century to century to settle their quarrels and bring to an issue the questions of supremacy which disturb their little corner of the world. The nations around are eager for the possession <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_4/chapter_ithe_first_chaldaean_empire.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. Maspero—</span><span class="citation2">History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 4</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_70_the_lake_of.htm">The Lake of Gennesaret; Or, the Sea of Galilee and Tiberias. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Jordan is measured at one hundred and twenty furlongs, from the lake of Samochonitis to that of Gennesaret. That lake, in the Old Testament, is 'The sea of Chinnereth,' Numbers 34:11, &c. In the Targumists, 'The sea of Genesar'; sometimes, 'of Genesor'; sometimes, 'of Ginosar': it is the same also in the Talmudists, but most frequently 'The sea of Tiberiah.' Both names are used by the evangelists; 'the lake of Gennesaret,' Luke 5:1; 'the sea of Tiberias,' John 21:1; and 'the sea of Galilee,' John <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_70_the_lake_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xxxiii_the_hardening_in_the.htm">The Hardening in the Sacred Scripture. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"He hath hardened their heart."-- John xii. 40. The Scripture teaches positively that the hardening and "darkening of their foolish heart" is a divine, intentional act. This is plainly evident from God's charge to Moses concerning the king of Egypt: "Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; and I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not harken unto you, and I will lay My hand upon Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xxxiii_the_hardening_in_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Abraham Kuyper—</span><span class="citation2">The Work of the Holy Spirit</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/joshua.htm">Joshua</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The book of Joshua is the natural complement of the Pentateuch. Moses is dead, but the people are on the verge of the promised land, and the story of early Israel would be incomplete, did it not record the conquest of that land and her establishment upon it. The divine purpose moves restlessly on, until it is accomplished; so "after the death of Moses, Jehovah spake to Joshua," i. 1. The book falls naturally into three divisions: (a) the conquest of Canaan (i.-xii.), (b) the settlement of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/joshua.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/joshua/11-5.htm">Joshua 11:5 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/joshua/11-5.htm">Joshua 11:5 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/joshua/11-5.htm">Joshua 11:5 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/joshua/11-5.htm">Joshua 11:5 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/joshua/11-5.htm">Joshua 11:5 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/joshua/11-5.htm">Joshua 11:5 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/joshua/11-5.htm">Joshua 11:5 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../joshua/11-4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Joshua 11:4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Joshua 11:4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../joshua/11-6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Joshua 11:6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Joshua 11:6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/joshua/11-5.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>