^{1 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel.

^{6 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} And they put every person in it to death without mercy, giving every living thing up to the curse, and burning Hazor.

^{12 Ref} 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 Ref} As for the towns made on hills of earth, not one was burned by Israel but Hazor, which was burned by Joshua.

^{14 Ref} 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 Ref} 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.