New American Bible, Revised Edition

Joshua 11:8-16 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

8. The Lord delivered them into the power of the Israelites, who defeated them and pursued them to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth-maim, and eastward to the valley of Mizpeh. They struck them all down, leaving no survivors.

9. Joshua did to them as the Lord had commanded: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.

10. At that time Joshua, turning back, captured Hazor and struck down its king with the sword; for Hazor formerly was the chief of all those kingdoms.

11. He also struck down with the sword every person there, carrying out the ban, till none was left alive. Hazor itself he burned.

12. All the cities of those kings, and the kings themselves, Joshua captured and put to the sword, carrying out the ban on them, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded.

13. However, Israel did not destroy by fire any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.

14. All the spoil and livestock of these cities the Israelites took as plunder; but the people they put to the sword, until they had destroyed the last of them, leaving none alive.

15. As the Lord had commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua acted accordingly. He left nothing undone that the Lord had commanded Moses should be done.

16. So Joshua took all this land: the mountain regions, the entire Negeb, all the land of Goshen, the Shephelah, the Arabah, as well as the mountain regions and Shephelah of Israel,