Joshua 11 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

The Northern Conquest

Joshua Conquers the Entire Land

Jos 11:1And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,

Jos 11:2

Jos 11:2and to the kings who were from the north, in the mountains, in the plain south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,

Jos 11:3

Jos 11:3to the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

Jos 11:4

Jos 11:4So they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

Jos 11:5

Jos 11:5And when all these kings had met together, they came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.

Jos 11:6

Jos 11:6But the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”

Jos 11:7

Jos 11:7So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and they attacked them.

Jos 11:8

Jos 11:8And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them and chased them to Greater Sidon, to the Brook Misrephoth,[fn] and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until they left none of them remaining.

Jos 11:9

Jos 11:9So Joshua did to them as the LORD had told him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

Jos 11:10

Jos 11:10Joshua 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.

Jos 11:11

Jos 11:11And they struck all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was none left breathing. Then he burned Hazor with fire.

Jos 11:12

Jos 11:12So all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took and struck with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.

Jos 11:13

Jos 11:13But as for the cities that stood on their mounds,[fn] Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only, which Joshua burned.

Jos 11:14

Jos 11:14And all the 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.

Jos 11:15

Jos 11:15As the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.

Summary of Joshua’s Conquests

Jos 11:16

Jos 11:16Thus Joshua took all this land: the mountain country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, and the Jordan plain[fn]—the mountains of Israel and its lowlands,

Jos 11:17

Jos 11:17from 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.

Jos 11:18

Jos 11:18Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

Jos 11:19

Jos 11:19There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the others they took in battle.

Jos 11:20

Jos 11:20For it was of the LORD 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, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Jos 11:21

Jos 11:21And at that time Joshua came and cut off 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.

Jos 11:22

Jos 11:22None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.

Jos 11:23

Jos 11:23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.

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NKJV Footnotes

(11:8)

Hebrew Misrephoth Maim

(11:13)

Hebrew tel, a heap of successive city ruins

(11:16)

Hebrew arabah

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