aoSee Num. 34:2-12
auSee Num. 26:29-32
Joshua 11
Conquests in Northern Canaan
1When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he asent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, 2and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the bArabah south of cChinneroth, and in the lowland, and din Naphoth-dor on the ewest, 3to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the fJebusites in the hill country, and the gHivites under hHermon in the land of iMizpah. 4And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number jlike the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots. 5And all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.6And the Lord said to Joshua, k“Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall lhamstring their horses and burn their mchariots with fire.” 7So Joshua and all his warriors came nsuddenly against them by the waters of Merom and fell upon them. 8And the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as oGreat Sidon and pMisrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of qMizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining. 9And Joshua did to them rjust as the Lord said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
10And Joshua turned back at that time and captured sHazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms. 11And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction; ▼
▼That is, setting apart ( devoting) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verses 12, 20, 21
uthere was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire. 12And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, vjust as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. 13But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor alone; that Joshua burned. 14And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the people of Israel took for their plunder. But every person they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed. 15 wJust as the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, xso Moses commanded Joshua, yand so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses. 16So Joshua took all that land, zthe hill country and all the Negeb and aaall the land of Goshen aband the lowland acand the Arabah adand the hill country of Israel and its lowland 17 aefrom Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as afBaal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below agMount Hermon. And he captured ahall their kings and struck them and put them to death. 18Joshua made war aia long time with all those kings. 19There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel except ajthe Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took them all in battle. 20For it was the Lord’s doing akto harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, aljust as the Lord commanded Moses.
21And Joshua came at that time and cut off amthe Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities. 22There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, anin Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain. 23So Joshua took the whole land, aoaccording to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. apAnd Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel aqaccording to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.
Joshua 17
1Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was arthe firstborn of Joseph. To asMachir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, atwere allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war. 2And allotments were made auto the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans, Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their clans.3Now avZelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters, and these are the names of his daughters: awMahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 4They approached axEleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the leaders and said, ay“The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers.” So according to the mouth of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father. 5Thus there fell to Manasseh ten portions, besides azthe land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the Jordan, 6because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance along with his sons. The land of Gilead was allotted to the rest of the people of Manasseh.
7The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to baMichmethath, which is east of Shechem. Then the boundary goes along southward to the inhabitants of En-tappuah. 8The land of bbTappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the people of Ephraim. 9 bcThen the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea, 10the land to the south being Ephraim’s and that to the north being Manasseh’s, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar. 11Also in Issachar and in Asher bdManasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of beDor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of bfTaanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of bgMegiddo and its villages; bhthe third is Naphath. ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
12 bjYet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. 13Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites bkto forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out. 14Then blthe people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me but bmone lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am bna numerous people, since all along the Lord has blessed me?” 15And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and bothe Rephaim, since bpthe hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.” 16The people of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have bqchariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in brthe Valley of Jezreel.” 17Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, “You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only, 18but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, bsthough they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”
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