OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 10

Joshua 11:10

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Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.

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Joshua 11:7–13

7

So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.

8

The LORD 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 Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.

9

Joshua did to them as the LORD told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

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Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.

11

They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.

12

Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.

13

But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.

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