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up to Hebron and attacked it. 37 They captured the town and killed everyone in it,
including its king, leaving no survivors. They did the same thing to all of its surrounding villages. And just as he had done at Eglon, he completely destroyed the
entire population.
38 Then Joshua and the Israelites turned back and attacked Debir. 39 He captured
the town, its king, and all of its surrounding villages. He completely destroyed
everyone in it, leaving no survivors. He did to Debir and its king just what he had
done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king.
40 So Joshua conquered the whole region—the kings and people of the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills, and the mountain slopes. He completely
destroyed everyone in the land, leaving no survivors, just as the Lord, the God of
Israel, had commanded. 41 Joshua slaughtered them from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza
and from the region around the town of Goshen up to Gibeon.
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Then
the
Joshua conquered all these kings
and their land in a single campaign,
for the LORD, the God of Israel,
was fighting for his people.
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Then Joshua and the Israelite army returned to their camp at Gilgal.
Israel Defeats the Northern Armies
When King Jabin of Hazor heard what had happened, he sent messages to
the following kings: King Jobab of Madon; the king of Shimron; the king of
Acshaph; 2 all the kings of the northern hill country; the kings in the Jordan Valley
south of Galilee; the kings in the Galilean foothills; the kings of Naphoth-dor on
the west; 3 the kings of Canaan, both east and west; the kings of the Amorites, the
Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites in the towns
on the slopes of Mount Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
4 All these kings came out to fight. Their combined armies formed a vast horde.
And with all their horses and chariots, they covered the landscape like the sand
on the seashore. 5 The kings joined forces and established their camp around the
water near Merom to fight against Israel.
6 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them. By this time tomorrow I will hand all of them over to Israel as dead men. Then you must cripple their
horses and burn their chariots.”
7 So Joshua and all his fighting men traveled to the water near Merom and
attacked suddenly.
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And the LORD gave them
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victory over their enemies.
The Israelites chased them as far as Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and
eastward into the valley of Mizpah, until not one enemy warrior was left alive.
9 Then Joshua crippled the horses and burned all the chariots, as the Lord had
instructed.
10 Joshua then turned back and captured Hazor and killed its king. (Hazor had
at one time been the capital of all these kingdoms.) 11 The Israelites completely
Lord
said to
Joshua,
“Do not
BE
afraid
OF
them.”
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