The Father Defeats the Northern Kings
11 1 When Jabin king of Hazor heard this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, 2 and the northern kings: in the hill country, the Arabah south of Chinneroth, the lowland, and Dor's heights to the west; 3 to the Canaanites east and west, the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites below Hermon in the land of Mizpah. 4 They marched out with all their troops—an army vast as sand on the seashore—and very many horses and chariots. 5 All these kings united and came to camp together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.
6 Our Father told Joshua, "Don't fear them, for by this time tomorrow I will give them all to Israel, dead. Hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire."
7 Joshua and his army came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom and attacked them. 8 and our Father gave them to Israel, who struck and pursued them to Greater Sidon, Misrephoth-maim, and the Valley of Mizpeh eastward, leaving no survivor. 9 Joshua did to them as our Father told him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire. 10 At that time Joshua turned back, captured Hazor, and struck its king down with the sword, for Hazor had formerly been head of all these kingdoms. 11 They struck everyone in it with the sword, destroying them completely; nothing that breathed was left, and Joshua burned Hazor itself with fire. 12 Joshua captured all these kings' cities and all their kings, cut them down with the sword, devoting them to destruction, as Moses the servant of our Father commanded. 13 Israel burned none of the cities sitting on their mounds, except Hazor alone—Joshua burned that one. 14 Israel took all the plunder and livestock of these cities for themselves, but struck down every person by the sword until none were left breathing. 15 As our Father commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it, leaving nothing undone of all our Father had commanded Moses.
16 Joshua took all this land: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, and Israel's hill country with its lowland. 17 From Mount Halak, rising toward Seir, to Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon, he captured all their kings, struck them down, and killed them. 18 Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time. 19 No city made peace with Israel except the Hivites in Gibeon; Israel took them all in battle. 20 For our Father hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so they'd be devoted to destruction, shown no mercy, and wiped out — as our Father commanded Moses. 21 At that time Joshua went and eliminated the Anakim from the hill country—Hebron, Debir, Anab—and from all the hill country of Judah and all the hill country of Israel, devoting them and their cities to destruction. 22 No Anakim remained in Israelites' land; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did some remain. 23 So Joshua took the whole land, exactly as our Father had told Moses, and gave it to Israel as an inheritance by their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.
