Yehoshua, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Now it happened, when Adoni-Tzedek king of Yerushalayim heard
how Yehoshua had taken `Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had
done to Yericho and her king, so he had done to `Ai and her king; and
how the inhabitants of Giv`on had made shalom with Yisra'el, and were
among them; {10:2} that they feared greatly, because Giv`on was a
great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater
than `Ai, and all the men of it were mighty. {10:3} Therefore
Adoni-Tzedek king of Yerushalayim sent to Hoham king of Hevron, and to
Pir'am king of Yarmut, and to Yafia king of Lakhish, and to Devir king
of `Eglon, saying, {10:4} Come up to me, and help me, and let us
strike Giv`on; for it has made shalom with Yehoshua and with the
children of Yisra'el. {10:5} Therefore the five kings of the Amori,
the king of Yerushalayim, the king of Hevron, the king of Yarmut, the
king of Lakhish, the king of `Eglon, gathered themselves together, and
went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped against Giv`on, and
made war against it. {10:6} The men of Giv`on sent to Yehoshua to the
camp to Gilgal, saying, Don't slack your hand from your servants; come
up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the
Amori that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.
{10:7} So Yehoshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war
with him, and all the mighty men of valor. {10:8} The LORD said to
Yehoshua, Don't fear them: for I have delivered them into your hands;
there shall not a man of them stand before you. {10:9} Yehoshua
therefore came on them suddenly; [for] he went up from Gilgal all the
night. {10:10} The LORD confused them before Yisra'el, and he killed
them with a great slaughter at Giv`on, and chased them by the way of
the ascent of Beit-Horon, and struck them to `Azeka, and to Makkedah.
{10:11} It happened, as they fled from before Yisra'el, while they
were at the descent of Beit-Horon, that the LORD cast down great
stones from the sky on them to `Azeka, and they died: they were more
who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Yisra'el
killed with the sword. {10:12} Then spoke Yehoshua to the LORD in the
day when the LORD delivered up the Amori before the children of
Yisra'el; and he said in the sight of Yisra'el, Sun, stand you still
on Giv`on; You, Moon, in the valley of Ayalon. {10:13} The sun stood
still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged themselves of
their enemies. Isn't this written in the book of Yashar? The sun
stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn't hurry to go down about a
whole day. {10:14} There was no day like that before it or after it,
that the LORD listened to the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for
Yisra'el. {10:15} Yehoshua returned, and all Yisra'el with him, to the
camp to Gilgal. {10:16} These five kings fled, and hid themselves in
the cave at Makkedah. {10:17} It was told Yehoshua, saying, The five
kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah. {10:18} Yehoshua
said, Roll great stones to the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to
keep them: {10:19} but don't stay; pursue after your enemies, and
strike the hindmost of them; don't allow them to enter into their
cities: for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.
{10:20} It happened, when Yehoshua and the children of Yisra'el had
made an end of killing them with a very great slaughter, until they
were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into
the fortified cities, {10:21} that all the people returned to the camp
to Yehoshua at Makkedah in shalom: none moved his tongue against any
of the children of Yisra'el. {10:22} Then said Yehoshua, Open the
mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings to me out of the
cave. {10:23} They did so, and brought forth those five kings to him
out of the cave, the king of Yerushalayim, the king of Hevron, the
king of Yarmut, the king of Lakhish, the king of `Eglon. {10:24} It
happened, when they brought forth those kings to Yehoshua, that
Yehoshua called for all the men of Yisra'el, and said to the chiefs of
the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet on the
necks of these kings. They came near, and put their feet on the necks
of them. {10:25} Yehoshua said to them, Don't be afraid, nor be
dismayed; be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to
all your enemies against whom you fight. {10:26} Afterward Yehoshua
struck them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and
they were hanging on the trees until the evening. {10:27} It happened
at the time of the going down of the sun, that Yehoshua commanded, and
they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave in
which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth
of the cave, to this very day. {10:28} Yehoshua took Makkedah on that
day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it: he
utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were therein; he left
none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to
the king of Yericho. {10:29} Yehoshua passed from Makkedah, and all
Yisra'el with him, to Livna, and fought against Livna: {10:30} and the
LORD delivered it also, and the king of it, into the hand of Yisra'el;
and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who
were therein; he left none remaining in it; and he did to the king of
it as he had done to the king of Yericho. {10:31} Yehoshua passed from
Livna, and all Yisra'el with him, to Lakhish, and encamped against it,
and fought against it: {10:32} and the LORD delivered Lakhish into the
hand of Yisra'el; and he took it on the second day, and struck it with
the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein, according
to all that he had done to Livna. {10:33} Then Horam king of Gezer
came up to help Lakhish; and Yehoshua struck him and his people, until
he had left him none remaining. {10:34} Yehoshua passed from Lakhish,
and all Yisra'el with him, to `Eglon; and they encamped against it,
and fought against it; {10:35} and they took it on that day, and
struck it with the edge of the sword; and all the souls who were
therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had
done to Lakhish. {10:36} Yehoshua went up from `Eglon, and all
Yisra'el with him, to Hevron; and they fought against it: {10:37} and
they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king
of it, and all the cities of it, and all the souls who were therein;
he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to `Eglon;
but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were therein.
{10:38} Yehoshua returned, and all Yisra'el with him, to Devir, and
fought against it: {10:39} and he took it, and the king of it, and all
the cities of it; and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and
utterly destroyed all the souls who were therein; he left none
remaining: as he had done to Hevron, so he did to Devir, and to the
king of it; as he had done also to Livna, and to the king of it.
{10:40} So Yehoshua struck all the land, the hill-country, and the
South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left
none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the
LORD, the God of Yisra'el, commanded. {10:41} Yehoshua struck them
from Kadesh-Barnea even to `Aza, and all the country of Goshen, even
to Giv`on. {10:42} All these kings and their land did Yehoshua take at
one time, because the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, fought for Yisra'el.
{10:43} Yehoshua returned, and all Yisra'el with him, to the camp to
Gilgal.
{11:1} It happened, when Yavin king of Hatzor heard of it, that he
sent to Yovav king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the
king of Akhshaf, {11:2} and to the kings who were on the north, in the
hill-country, and in the `Aravah south of Kinnarot, and in the
lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west, {11:3} to the Kana`ani
on the east and on the west, and the Amori, and the Hittite, and the
Perizzi, and the Yevusi in the hill-country, and the Hivvi under
Hermon in the land of Mitzpah. {11:4} They went out, they and all
their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is on the
sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many. {11:5} All
these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the
waters of Merom, to fight with Yisra'el. {11:6} The LORD said to
Yehoshua, Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time
will I deliver them up all slain before Yisra'el: you shall hamstring
their horses, and burn their chariots with fire. {11:7} So Yehoshua
came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters
of Merom suddenly, and fell on them. {11:8} The LORD delivered them
into the hand of Yisra'el, and they struck them, and chased them to
great Tzidon, and to Misrefot-Mayim, and to the valley of Mitzpeh
eastward; and they struck them, until they left them none remaining.
{11:9} Yehoshua did to them as the LORD bade him: he hamstrung their
horses, and burnt their chariots with fire. {11:10} Yehoshua turned
back at that time, and took Hatzor, and struck the king of it with the
sword: for Hatzor before was the head of all those kingdoms. {11:11}
They struck all the souls who were therein with the edge of the sword,
utterly destroying them; there was none left who breathed: and he
burnt Hatzor with fire. {11:12} All the cities of those kings, and all
the kings of them, did Yehoshua take, and he struck them with the edge
of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moshe the servant of the
LORD commanded. {11:13} But as for the cities that stood on their
mounds, Yisra'el burned none of them, save Hatzor only; that did
Yehoshua burn. {11:14} All the spoil of these cities, and the cattle,
the children of Yisra'el 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. {11:15} As the LORD commanded
Moshe his servant, so did Moshe command Yehoshua: and so did Yehoshua;
he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moshe. {11:16}
So Yehoshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the South,
and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the `Aravah, and the
hill-country of Yisra'el, and the lowland of the same; {11:17} from
Mount Halak, that goes up to Se`ir, even to Ba`al-Gad in the valley of
Levanon under Mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and struck
them, and put them to death. {11:18} Yehoshua made war a long time
with all those kings. {11:19} There was not a city that made shalom
with the children of Yisra'el, save the Hivvi the inhabitants of
Giv`on: they took all in battle. {11:20} For it was of the LORD to
harden their hearts, to come against Yisra'el in battle, that he might
utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might
destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moshe. {11:21} Yehoshua came at
that time, and cut off the `Anakim from the hill-country, from Hevron,
from Devir, from `Anav, and from all the hill-country of Yehudah, and
from all the hill-country of Yisra'el: Yehoshua utterly destroyed them
with their cities. {11:22} There was none of the `Anakim left in the
land of the children of Yisra'el: only in `Aza, in Gat, and in Ashdod,
did some remain. {11:23} So Yehoshua took the whole land, according to
all that the LORD spoke to Moshe; and Yehoshua gave it for an
inheritance to Yisra'el according to their divisions by their tribes.
The land had rest from war.
{12:1} Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of
Yisra'el struck, and possessed their land beyond the Yarden toward the
sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the
`Aravah eastward: {12:2} Sichon king of the Amori, who lived in
Heshbon, and ruled from `Aro`er, which is on the edge of the valley of
the Arnon, and [the city that is in] the middle of the valley, and
half Gil`ad, even to the river Yabbok, the border of the children of
`Ammon; {12:3} and the `Aravah to the sea of Kinnarot, eastward, and
to the sea of the `Aravah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to
Beit-Hayshimot; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah: {12:4}
and the border of `Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Refa'im,
who lived at `Ashtarot and at Edre`i, {12:5} and ruled in Mount
Hermon, and in Salkhah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the
Geshuri and the Ma`akhati, and half Gil`ad, the border of Sichon king
of Heshbon. {12:6} Moshe the servant of the LORD and the children of
Yisra'el struck them: and Moshe the servant of the LORD gave it for a
possession to the Re'uveni, and the Gadi, and the half-tribe of
Menashsheh. {12:7} These are the kings of the land whom Yehoshua and
the children of Yisra'el struck beyond the Yarden westward, from
Ba`al-Gad in the valley of Levanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up
to Se`ir; and Yehoshua gave it to the tribes of Yisra'el for a
possession according to their divisions; {12:8} in the hill-country,
and in the lowland, and in the `Aravah, and in the slopes, and in the
wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amori, and the
Kana`ani, the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi: {12:9} the king of
Yericho, one; the king of `Ai, which is beside Beit-El, one; {12:10}
the king of Yerushalayim, one; the king of Hevron, one; {12:11} the
king of Yarmut, one; the king of Lakhish, one; {12:12} the king of
`Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; {12:13} the king of Devir, one;
the king of Geder, one; {12:14} the king of Hormah, one; the king of
`Arad, one; {12:15} the king of Livna, one; the king of `Adullam, one;
{12:16} the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beit-El, one; {12:17}
the king of Tappuach, one; the king of Hefer, one; {12:18} the king of
Afek, one; the king of Lassharon, one; {12:19} the king of Madon, one;
the king of Hatzor, one; {12:20} the king of Shimron-meron, one; the
king of Akhshaf, one; {12:21} the king of Ta`nakh, one; the king of
Megiddo, one; {12:22} the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Yokne`am in
Karmel, one; {12:23} the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the
king of Goyim in Gilgal, one; {12:24} the king of Tirtzah, one: all
the kings thirty-one.
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