Joshua 10:40-12:23

New King James Version

⁴⁰So Joshua conquered all the land: the ^(A)mountain country and the ^[a]South and the lowland and the wilderness slopes, and ^(B)all their kings; he left none remaining, but ^(C)utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded. ⁴¹And Joshua conquered them from ^(D)Kadesh Barnea as far as ^(E)Gaza, ^(F)and all the country of Goshen, even as far as Gibeon. ⁴²All these kings and their land Joshua took at one time, ^(G)because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel. ⁴³Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.

The Northern Conquest

11 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things, that he ^(H)sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king ^(I)of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph, ²and to the kings who were from the north, in the mountains, in the plain south of ^(J)Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights ^(K)of Dor on the west, ³to the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the ^(L)Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, ^(M)and the Hivite below ^(N)Hermon ^(O)in the land of Mizpah. ⁴So they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people ^(P)as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots. ⁵And when all these kings had ^[b]met together, they came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.

⁶But the Lord said to Joshua, ^(Q)“Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You shall ^(R)hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.” ⁷So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and they attacked them. ⁸And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them and chased them to ^[c]Greater ^(S)Sidon, to the ^[d]Brook ^(T)Misrephoth, and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until they left none of them remaining. ⁹So Joshua did to them as the Lord had told him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

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

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, ^(W)as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. ¹³But as for the cities that stood on their ^[e]mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only, which Joshua burned. ¹⁴And all the ^(X)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^(Y)As the Lord had commanded Moses His servant, so ^(Z)Moses commanded Joshua, and ^(AA)so Joshua did. ^[f]He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

Summary of Joshua’s Conquests

¹⁶Thus Joshua took all this land: ^(AB)the mountain country, all the South, ^(AC)all the land of Goshen, the lowland, and the Jordan ^[g]plain—the mountains of Israel and its lowlands, ¹⁷^(AD)from ^[h]Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, even as far as Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured ^(AE)all their kings, and struck them down and killed them. ¹⁸Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. ¹⁹There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except ^(AF)the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the others they took in battle. ²⁰For ^(AG)it was of the Lord ^[i]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, ^(AH)as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²¹And at that time Joshua came and cut off ^(AI)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. ²²None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only ^(AJ)in Gaza, in Gath, ^(AK)and in Ashdod.

²³So Joshua took the whole land, ^(AL)according to all that the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel ^(AM)according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land ^(AN)rested from war.

The Kings Conquered by Moses^(AO)

12 These are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, ^(AP)from the River Arnon ^(AQ)to Mount Hermon, and all the eastern Jordan plain: ²One king was ^(AR)Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon and ruled half of Gilead, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, from the middle of that river, even as far as the River Jabbok, which is the border of the Ammonites, ³and ^(AS)the eastern Jordan plain from the ^[j]Sea of Chinneroth as far as the ^[k]Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), ^(AT)the road to Beth Jeshimoth, and ^[l]southward below ^(AU)the^[m] slopes of Pisgah. ⁴The other king was ^(AV)Og king of Bashan and his territory, who was of ^(AW)the remnant of the giants, ^(AX)who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, ⁵and reigned over ^(AY)Mount Hermon, ^(AZ)over Salcah, over all Bashan, ^(BA)as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and over half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

⁶^(BB)These Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel had conquered; and ^(BC)Moses the servant of the Lord had given it as a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

The Kings Conquered by Joshua

⁷And these are the kings of the country ^(BD)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 ^[n]Mount Halak and the ascent to ^(BE)Seir, which Joshua ^(BF)gave to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions, ⁸^(BG)in the mountain country, in the lowlands, in the Jordan plain, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the South—^(BH)the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: ⁹^(BI)the king of Jericho, one; ^(BJ)the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; ¹⁰^(BK)the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; ¹¹the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; ¹²the king of Eglon, one; ^(BL)the king of Gezer, one; ¹³^(BM)the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; ¹⁴the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; ¹⁵^(BN)the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; ¹⁶^(BO)the king of Makkedah, one; ^(BP)the king of Bethel, one; ¹⁷the king of Tappuah, one; ^(BQ)the king of Hepher, one; ¹⁸the king of Aphek, one; the king of ^[o]Lasharon, one; ¹⁹the king of Madon, one; ^(BR)the king of Hazor, one; ²⁰the king of ^(BS)Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; ²¹the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; ²²^(BT)the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; ²³the king of Dor in the ^(BU)heights of Dor, one; the king of ^(BV)the people of Gilgal, one;