1 Now Jabin, king of Hazor, hearing of these things, sent to Jobab, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,2 And to the kings on the north in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the highlands of Dor on the west,3 And to the Canaanites on the east and on the west, and to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill-country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.4 And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.5 And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel.6 And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.7 So Joshua and all the men of war with him came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and made an attack on them.8 And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them driving them back to great Zidon and to Misrephoth-maim and into the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they put them all to death, no man got away safely.9 And Joshua did to them as the Lord had said to him; he had the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.10 At that time, Joshua went on to take Hazor and put its king to the sword: for in earlier times Hazor was the chief of all those kingdoms.11 And they put every person in it to death without mercy, giving every living thing up to the curse, and burning Hazor.12 And all the towns of these kings, and all the kings, Joshua took, and put them to the sword: he gave them up to the curse, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had said.13 As for the towns made on hills of earth, not one was burned by Israel but Hazor, which was burned by Joshua.14 And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.15 As the Lord had given orders to Moses his servant, so Moses gave orders to Joshua, and so Joshua did; every order which the Lord had given to Moses was done.16 So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland and the Arabah, the hill-country of Israel and its lowland;17 From Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all their kings he overcame and put to death.18 For a long time Joshua made war on all those kings.19 Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.20 For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.21 And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and their towns to the curse.22 Not one of the Anakim was to be seen in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some were still living.23 So Joshua took all the land, as the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it to the children of Israel as their heritage, making division of it among them by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.

1 Qu cum audisset Jabin rex Asor, misit ad Jobab regem Madon, et ad regem Semeron, atque ad regem Achsaph : 2 ad reges quoque aquilonis, qui habitabant in montanis et in planitie contra meridiem Ceneroth, in campestribus quoque et in regionibus Dor juxta mare : 3 Chananum quoque ab oriente et occidente, et Amorrhum atque Hethum ac Pherezum et Jebusum in montanis : Hevum quoque qui habitabat ad radices Hermon in terra Maspha. 4 Egressique sunt omnes cum turmis suis, populus multus nimis sicut arena qu est in littore maris, equi quoque et currus immens multitudinis. 5 Conveneruntque omnes reges isti in unum ad aquas Merom, ut pugnarent contra Isral.6 Dixitque Dominus ad Josue : Ne timeas eos : cras enim hac eadem hora ego tradam omnes istos vulnerandos in conspectu Isral : equos eorum subnervabis, et currus igne combures. 7 Venitque Josue, et omnis exercitus cum eo, adversus illos ad aquas Merom subito, et irruerunt super eos, 8 tradiditque illos Dominus in manus Isral. Qui percusserunt eos, et persecuti sunt usque ad Sidonem magnam, et aquas Maserephoth, campumque Masphe, qui est ad orientalem illius partem. Ita percussit omnes, ut nullas dimitteret ex eis reliquias : 9 fecitque sicut prceperat ei Dominus : equos eorum subnervavit, currusque combussit igni. 10 Reversusque statim cepit Asor, et regem ejus percussit gladio. Asor enim antiquitus inter omnia regna hc principatum tenebat. 11 Percussitque omnes animas qu ibidem morabantur : non dimisit in ea ullas reliquias, sed usque ad internecionem universa vastavit, ipsamque urbem peremit incendio. 12 Et omnes per circuitum civitates, regesque earum, cepit, percussit atque delevit, sicut prceperat ei Moyses famulus Domini. 13 Absque urbibus, qu erant in collibus et in tumulis sit, ceteras succendit Isral : unam tantum Asor munitissimam flamma consumpsit. 14 Omnemque prdam istarum urbium ac jumenta diviserunt sibi filii Isral, cunctis hominibus interfectis. 15 Sicut prceperat Dominus Moysi servo suo, ita prcepit Moyses Josue, et ille universa complevit : non prteriit de universis mandatis, nec unum quidem verbum quod jusserat Dominus Moysi. 16 Cepit itaque Josue omnem terram montanam et meridianam, terramque Gosen, et planitiem, et occidentalem plagam, montemque Isral, et campestria ejus, 17 et partem montis, qu ascendit Seir usque Baalgad, per planitiem Libani subter montem Hermon : omnes reges eorum cepit, percussit, et occidit. 18 Multo tempore pugnavit Josue contra reges istos. 19 Non fuit civitas qu se traderet filiis Isral, prter Hevum, qui habitabat in Gabaon : omnes enim bellando cepit. 20 Domini enim sententia fuerat, ut indurarentur corda eorum, et pugnarent contra Isral, et caderent, et non mererentur ullam clementiam, ac perirent, sicut prceperat Dominus Moysi. 21 In illo tempore venit Josue, et interfecit Enacim de montanis, Hebron, et Dabir, et Anab, et de omni monte Juda et Isral, urbesque eorum delevit. 22 Non reliquit ullum de stirpe Enacim, in terra filiorum Isral : absque civitatibus Gaza, et Geth, et Azoto, in quibus solis relicti sunt. 23 Cepit ergo Josue omnem terram, sicut locutus est Dominus ad Moysen, et tradidit eam in possessionem filiis Isral secundum partes et tribus suas : quievitque terra a prliis.