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in the mountains, and the Hivite below
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Hermon in the land of Mizpah. So they went
out, they and all their armies with them, as
many people as the sand that is on the 11:18 war a long time. The conquest took
seashore in multitude, with very many horses approximately 7 years.Only Gibeon submitted
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and chariots. And when all these kings had without a fight (v. 19).
met together, they came and camped together
at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.
6 But the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the oth-
afraid because of them, for tomorrow about ers they took in battle. For it was of the LORD
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this time I will deliver all of them slain before to harden their hearts, that they should come
Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and against Israel in battle, that He might utterly
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burn their chariots with fire.” So Joshua and destroy them, and that they might receive no
all the people of war with him came against mercy, but that He might destroy them, as the
them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and LORD had commanded Moses.
they attacked them. And the LORD delivered 21 And at that time Joshua came and cut off
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them into the hand of Israel, who defeated the Anakim from the mountains: from
them and chased them to Greater Sidon, to Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the
the Brook Misrephoth, and to the Valley of mountains of Judah, and from all the moun-
Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until tains of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them
they left none of them remaining. So Joshua with their cities. None of the Anakim were left
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did to them as the LORD had told him: he ham- in the land of the children of Israel; they
strung their horses and burned their chariots remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.
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 king-
doms. And they struck all the people who 11:20 it was of the LORD to harden their
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were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly hearts. God turned the Canaanites’ hearts to
destroying them. There was none left breath- fight in order that Israel might be His judging
ing. Then he burned Hazor with fire. instrument to destroy them.They were willfully
12 So all the cities of those kings, and all their guilty of rejecting the true God with conse-
kings, Joshua took and struck with the edge of quent great wickedness and were as unfit to
the sword. He utterly destroyed them, as remain in the land as vomit spewed out of the
Moses the servant of the LORD had command- mouth (Lev. 18:24,25).
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ed. But as for the cities that stood on their 11:21 Anakim. Enemies who dwelt in the
mounds, Israel burned none of them, except southern area which Joshua had defeated.
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Hazor only, which Joshua burned. And all the They descended from Anak (“long-necked”)
spoil of these cities and the livestock, the chil- and were related to the giants who made
dren of Israel took as booty for themselves; Israel’s spies feel small as grasshoppers by
but they struck every man with the edge of comparison (Num. 13:28–33). Their territory
the sword until they had destroyed them, and was later given to Caleb as a reward for his loy-
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they left none breathing. As the LORD had alty (14:6–15).
commanded Moses his servant, so Moses
commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He
left nothing undone of all that the LORD had 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according
commanded Moses. to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and
16 Thus Joshua took all this land: the moun- Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel ac-
tain country, all the South, all the land of cording to their divisions by their tribes. Then
Goshen, the lowland, and the Jordan plain— the land rested from war.
the mountains of Israel and its lowlands, These are the kings of the land whom
17 from Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, 12 the children of Israel defeated, and
even as far as Baal Gad in the Valley of Leba- whose land they possessed on the other side
non below Mount Hermon. He captured all of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun,
their kings, and struck them down and killed from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon, and
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them. Joshua made war a long time with all all the eastern Jordan plain: One king was
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those kings. There was not a city that made Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in
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peace with the children of Israel, except the Heshbon and ruled half of Gilead, from Aroer,
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