1 Quando Jabim, rei de Hazor, ouviu isto, enviou mensageiros a Jobabe, rei de Madom, ao rei de Sinrom, ao rei de Acsafe,
2 aos reis que estavam ao norte, na região montanhosa e na Arabá ao sul de Quinerete, e na Sefelá, e nos planaltos de Dor ao ocidente,
3 aos cananeus ao oriente e ao ocidente, aos amorreus, aos heteus, aos ferezeus, e aos jebuseus na região montanhosa, e aos heveus ao pé de Hermom na terra de Mispa.
4 Saíram eles com todas as suas hostes, muito povo, multidão numerosa como a areia que está na praia do mar, levando muitíssimos cavalos e carros.
5 Todos estes reis se reuniram, vieram e acamparam-se juntos às águas de Merom, para pelejarem contra Israel.
6 Disse Jeová a Josué: Não te arreceies deles; porque amanhã a esta hora eu os entregarei a todos mortos diante de Israel. Jarretarás os seus cavalos, e queimarás com fogo os seus carros.
7 Josué, com toda a gente de guerra, veio de repente contra eles às águas de Merom, e os atacaram.
8 Jeová entregou-os nas mãos de Israel: feriram-nos, e perseguiram-nos até a grande Sidom, e até Misrefote-Maim, e até o vale de Mispa ao oriente; e feriram-nos, até não lhes deixar nem sequer um de resto.
9 Fez-lhes Josué como Jeová lhe ordenou; jarretou os cavalos deles, e queimou os carros com fogo.
10 Nesse tempo voltou Josué, tomou a Hazor e matou à espada o seu rei, pois Hazor dantes era a capital de todos estes reinos.
11 Feriram ao fio da espada a todos os que nela estavam, destruindo-os totalmente; não foi deixado ninguém com vida; e ele queimou a Hazor com fogo.
12 Tomou Josué todas as cidades desses reis, e a eles mesmos, feriu-os ao fio da espada, e totalmente os destruiu, como ordenou Moisés, servo de Jeová.
13 Porém quanto às cidades que se achavam sobre outeiros, a nenhuma delas queimou Israel, a não ser a Hazor; a essa queimou Josué.
14 Os filhos de Israel tomaram como presa para si todos os despojos destas cidades, e o gado; porém feriram ao fio da espada a todos os homens até os destruírem, sem deixar a ninguém com vida.
15 Como Jeová ordenou a Moisés, seu servo, assim Moisés ordenou-a Josué. Assim Josué o fez; não deixou de fazer coisa alguma de tudo o que Jeová ordenou a Moisés.
16 Tomou Josué toda aquela terra, a região montanhosa, e todo o Neguebe, e toda a terra de Gósen, e a Sefelá, e a Arabá, e a região montanhosa de Israel com a sua planície,
17 desde o monte Halaque que sobe a Seir, até Baal-Gade no vale do Líbano ao pé do monte Hermom. tomou também todos os seus reis, feriu-os e tirou-lhes a vida.
18 Por muito tempo pelejou Josué contra todos esses reis.
19 Não houve cidade que fizesse paz com os filhos de Israel, à exceção dos heveus, habitantes de Gibeom: a todas tomaram à força de armas.
20 Pois de Jeová veio o endurecimento dos seus corações, para saírem à guerra contra Israel, a fim de que fossem destruídos totalmente, e não achassem piedade alguma, porém fossem de todo exterminados, como Jeová ordenou a Moisés.
21 Nesse tempo veio Josué e exterminou os anaquins da região montanhosa, de Hebrom, de Debir, de Anabe, de toda a região montanhosa de Judá e de toda a região montanhosa de Israel: Josué totalmente os destruiu com as suas cidades.
22 Não se deixou nem sequer um dos anaquins na terra dos filhos de Israel; somente ficaram alguns em Gaza, em Gate e em Asdode.
23 Tomou Josué a terra, conforme tudo o que Jeová falou a Moisés, e deu-a em herança a Israel, segundo as suas divisões em tribos. A terra cessou de ter guerra.
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.