1 And it came to be, when Yaḇin sovereign of Ḥatsor heard, that he sent to Yoḇaḇ sovereign of Maḏon, and to the sovereign of Shimron, and to the sovereign of Aḵshaph,
2 and to the sovereigns who were from the north, in the mountains, and in the desert plain south of Kinneroth, and in the low country, and in the heights of Dor on the west –
3 the Kena’anites in the east and in the west, and the Amorite, and the Ḥittite, and the Perizzite, and the Yeḇusite in the mountains, and the Ḥiwwite below Ḥermon in the land of Mitspah.
4 And they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as numerous as the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
5 And all these sovereigns met together, and they came and camped together at the waters of Mĕrom to fight against Yisra’ĕl.
6 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Yahoshua, “Do not be afraid of their presence, for tomorrow about this time I am giving all of them over to Yisra’ĕl, slain. Hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
7 And Yahoshua, and all the soldiers with him, came against them suddenly by the waters of Mĕrom, and they fell on them.
8 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 gave them into the hand of Yisra’ĕl, and they smote them and pursued them to Great Tsiḏon, and to Misrephoth Mayim, and to the Valley of Mitspĕh eastward. And they smote them until no survivor was left to them.
9 And Yahoshua did to them as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
10 And Yahoshua turned back at that time and captured Ḥatsor, and smote its sovereign with the sword, for Ḥatsor was formerly the head of all those reigns.
11 And they smote all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, putting them under the ban. He did not leave anyone breathing. Then he burned Ḥatsor with fire.
12 And Yahoshua captured all the cities of those sovereigns, and all their sovereigns, and he smote them with the edge of the sword. He put them under the ban, as Mosheh the servant of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 commanded.
13 However, Yisra’ĕl did not burn any cities that stood on their mounds, but Yahoshua burned only Ḥatsor.
14 And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the children of Yisra’ĕl took as booty for themselves. But they smote every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave anyone breathing.
15 As 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had commanded Mosheh his servant, so Mosheh commanded Yahoshua, and so Yahoshua did. He did not turn aside a word of all that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had commanded Mosheh.
16 Thus Yahoshua took all this land: the mountain country, and all the Negeḇ, and all the land of Goshen, and the low country, and the desert plain, and the mountains of Yisra’ĕl and its low lands,
17 from Mount Ḥalaq that goes up to Sĕ’ir, and as far as Ba’al Gaḏ in the Valley of Leḇanon below Mount Ḥermon. And he captured all their sovereigns, and smote them and killed them.
18 Yahoshua fought with all those sovereigns for a long time.
19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Yisra’ĕl, except the Ḥiwwites, the inhabitants of Giḇ’on. All the others they took in battle.
20 For it was of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to harden their hearts, that they should come against Yisra’ĕl in battle, in order to put them under the ban, so that they might have no favour, but that He might annihilate them, as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had commanded Mosheh.
21 And at that time Yahoshua came and cut off the Anaqim from the mountains, from Ḥeḇron, from Deḇir, from Anaḇ, and from all the mountains of Yahuḏah, and from all the mountains of Yisra’ĕl. Yahoshua put them with their cities under the ban.
22 There were none of the Anaqim left in the land of the children of Yisra’ĕl; only in Azzah, in Gath, and in Ashdoḏ some remained.
23 Thus Yahoshua took the entire land, according to all that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had said to Mosheh. And Yahoshua gave it as an inheritance to Yisra’ĕl according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from fighting.