1 When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Akshaph,2 and to the northern kings who were in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in Naphoth Dor on the west;3 to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below Hermon in the region of Mizpah.4 They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and chariots —a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.5 All these kings joined forces and made camp together at the Waters of Merom to fight against Israel.6 The LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots."7 So Joshua and his whole army came against them suddenly at the Waters of Merom and attacked them,8 and the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel. They defeated them and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim, and to the Valley of Mizpah on the east, until no survivors were left.9 Joshua did to them as the LORD had directed: He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.10 At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword. (Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.)11 Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed "them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself.12 Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.13 Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds —except Hazor, which Joshua burned.14 The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed.15 As the LORD commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.16 So Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the whole region of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with their foothills,17 from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and put them to death.18 Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time.19 Except for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the Israelites, who took them all in battle.20 For it was the LORD himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses.21 At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns.22 No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive.23 So Joshua took the entire land, just as the LORD had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. Then 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.