Yusha 11

It happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, ²and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west, ³to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill-country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah. ⁴They went out, they and all their forces with them, much people, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many. ⁵All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel. ⁶Allah said to Yusha, Do not be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire. ⁷So Yusha came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them. ⁸Allah delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left them none remaining. ⁹Yusha did to them as Allah bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire. ¹⁰Yusha turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor before was the head of all those kingdoms. ¹¹They struck all the souls who were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was none left who breathed: and he burned Hazor with fire. ¹²All the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Yusha take, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Musa the servant of Allah commanded. ¹³But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Yusha burn. ¹⁴All the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, Bani-Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed. ¹⁵As Allah commanded Musa his servant, so did Musa command Yusha: and so did Yusha; he left nothing undone of all that Allah commanded Musa. ¹⁶So Yusha took all that land, the hill-country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah, and the hill-country of Israel, and the lowland of the same; ¹⁷from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and struck them, and put them to death. ¹⁸Yusha made war a long time with all those kings. ¹⁹There was not a city that made peace with Bani-Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in battle. ²⁰For it was of Allah to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as Allah commanded Musa. ²¹Yusha came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel: Yusha utterly destroyed them with their cities. ²²There was none of the Anakim left in the land of Bani-Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain. ²³So Yusha took the whole land, according to all that Allah spoke to Musa; and Yusha gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.