Joshua 10, 11, 12

10   When Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured        
Ai and destroyed it (for Joshua had dealt with Ai and her king as he had           
dealt with Jericho and her king), and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had        
made their peace with Israel and were living among them, he was greatly       
alarmed; for Gibeon was a large place, like a royal city: it was larger than        
Ai, and all its men were good fighters.  So Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem         
sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of        
Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, and said, 'Come up and help me, and         
we will attack the Gibeonites, because they have made their peace with               
Joshua and the Israelites.'  So the five Amorite kings, the kings of Jerusalem,        
Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon, joined forces and advanced to take           
up their positions for the attack on Gibeon.  But the men of Gibeon sent           
this message to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: 'We are your slaves, do not         
abandon us, come quickly to our relief.  All the Amorite kings in the hill-  
country have joined forces against us; come and help us.'  So Joshua went       
up from Gilgal with all his forces and all his fighting men.  The Lord said          
to Joshua, 'Do not be afraid of them; I have delivered them into your hands,      
and not a man will be able to stand against you.'  Joshua came upon them      
suddenly, after marching all night from Gilgal.  The Lord threw them into       
confusion before the Israelites, and Joshua defeated them utterly in Gibeon;         
he pursued them down the pass of Beth-horon and kept up the slaughter as         
far as Azekah and Makkedah.  As they were fleeing from Israel down the      
pass, the Lord hurled great hailstones at them out of the sky all the way        
to Azekah: more died from the hailstones than the Israelites slew by the        
sword.         
   On that day when the Lord delivered the Amorites into the hands of        
Israel, Joshua spoke with the Lord, and he said in the presence of Israel:
        
                    Stand still, O Sun, in Gibeon;        
                    stand, Moon, in the Vale of Ajalon.  
    
So the sun stood still and the moon halted until a nation had taken vengeance          
on its enemies, as indeed is written in the Book of Jashar.  The sun stayed         
in mid heaven and made no haste to set for almost a whole day.  Never           
before or since has there been such a day as this day on which the Lord         
listened to the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel.  So Joshua          
and all the Israelites returned to the camp at Gilgal.         
   The five kings fled and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah, and       
Joshua was told that they had been found hidden in this cave.  Joshua        
replied, 'Roll some great stones to the mouth of the cave and post men         
there to keep watch over the kings.  But you must not stay; keep up the        
pursuit, attack your enemies from the rear and do not let them reach their         
cities; the Lord your God has delivered them into your hands.'  When        
Joshua and the Israelites had finished the work of slaughter and all had           
been put to the sword — except a few survivors who escaped and entered           
the fortified cities — the whole army rejoined Joshua at Makkedah in peace;          
not a man of the Israelites suffered so much as a scratch on his tongue.        
Then Joshua said, 'Open the mouth of the cave, and bring me out those         
five kings.'  They did so; they brought the five kings out of the cave, the       
kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.  When they           
had brought them to Joshua, he summoned all the Israelites and said to           
the commanders of the troops who had served with him, 'Come forward         
and put your feet on the necks of these kings.'  So they came forward and        
put their feet on their necks.  Joshua said to them, 'Do not be fearful or          
dismayed; be strong and resolute; for the Lord will do this to every enemy       
you fight against.'  And he struck down the kings and slew them; then he         
hung their bodies on five trees, where they remained hanging till evening.         
At sunset, on Joshua's orders they took them down from the trees and         
threw them into the cave in which they had hidden; they piled great stones        
against its mouth, and there the stones are to this day.         
   On that same day, Joshua captured Makkedah and put both king and         
people to the sword, destroying both them and every living thing in the        
city.  He left no survivor, and he dealt with the king of Makkedah as he         
had dealt with the king of Jericho.  Then Joshua and all the Israelites         
marched on from Makkedah to Libnah and attacked it.  The Lord de-           
livered the city and its king to the Israelites, and they put its people and            
every living thing in it to the sword; they left no survivor there, and dealt         
with its king as they had dealt with the king of Jericho.  From Libnah              
Joshua and all the Israelites marched on to Lachish, took up their positions        
and attacked it.  The Lord delivered Lachish into their hands; they took         
it on the second day and put every living thing in it to the sword, as they         
had done at Libnah.             
   Meanwhile Horam king of Gezer had advanced to the relief of Lachish;        
but Joshua struck them down, both king and people, and not a man of         
them survived.  Then Joshua and all the Israelites marched on from Lachish      
to Eglon, took up their positions and attacked it; that same day they cap-         
tured it and put its inhabitants to the sword, destroying every living thing         
in it as they had done at Lachish.  From Eglon Joshua and all the Israelites             
advanced to Hebron and attacked it.  They captured it and put its king to         
the sword together with every living thing in it and all its villages; as at           
Eglon, he left no survivor, destroying it and every living thing in it.  Then           
Joshua and all the Israelites wheeled round towards Debir and attacked it.         
They captured the city with its king, and all its villages, put them to the         
sword and destroyed every living thing; they left no survivor.  They dealt         
with Debir and its king as they had dealt with Hebron and with Libnah       
and its king.        
   So Joshua massacred the population of the whole region — the hill-         
country, the Negeb, the Shephelah, the watersheds — and all their kings.        
He left no survivor, destroying everything that drew breath, as the Lord       
the God of Israel had commanded.  Joshua carried the slaughter from        
Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, over the whole land of Goshen and as far as        
Gibeon.  All these kings he captured at the same time, and their country          
with them, for the Lord the God of Israel fought for Israel.  And Joshua       
returned with all the Israelites to the camp at Gilgal.  
        
11   When Jabin king of Hazor heard of all this, he sent to Jobab king of       
Madon, to the king of Shimron and Akshaph, to the northern kings in the        
hill-country, in the Arabah opposite Kinnereth, in the Shephalah, and in         
the district of Dor on the west, the Canaanites to the east and the west, the        
Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill-country, and the          
Hivites below Hermon in the land of Mizpah.  They took the field with all       
their forces, a great horde countless as the grains of sand on the sea-shore,               
among them a great number of horse and chariots.  All these kings made          
common cause, and came and encamped at the waters of Merom to fight           
against Israel.  The Lord said to Joshua, 'Do not be afraid of them, for at          
this time tomorrow I shall deliver them to Israel all dead men; you shall         
hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.'  So Joshua and his army           
surprised them by the waters of Merom and fell upon them.  The Lord           
delivered them into the hands of Israel; they struck them down and pursued          
them as far as Greater Sidon, Misrephoth on the west, and the Vale of        
Mizpah on the east.  They struck them down until not a man was left alive.           
Joshua dealt with them as the Lord had commanded: he hamstrung their        
horses and burnt their chariots.                
   At this point Joshua turned his forces against Hazor, formerly the head        
of all these kingdoms.  He captured the city and put its king to death with          
the sword.  They killed every living thing in it and wiped them all out; they            
spared nothing that drew breath, and Hazor itself they destroyed by fire.           
So Joshua captured these kings and their cities and put them to the sword,          
destroying them all, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.       
The cities whose ruined mounds are still standing were not burnt by the     
Israelites; it was Hazor alone that Joshua burnt.  The Israelites plundered            
all these cities and kept for themselves the cattle and any other spoil they           
took; but they put every living soul to the sword until they had destroyed       
every one; they did not leave alive any one that drew breath.  The Lord        
laid his commands on his servant Moses, and Moses laid these same com-        
mands on Joshua, and Joshua carried them out.  Not one of the commands         
laid on Moses by the Lord did he leave unfulfilled.           
   And so Joshua took the whole country, the hill-country, all the Negeb,         
all the land of Goshen, the Shephelah, the Arabah, and the Israelite hill-         
country with the adjoining lowlands.  His conquests extended from the         
bare mountain which leads up to Seir as far as Baal-gad in the Vale of         
Lebanon under Mount Hermon.  He took prisoner all their kings, struck       
them down and put them to death.  It was a long war that he fought         
against all these kingdoms.  Except for the Hivites who lived in Gibeon,         
not one of their cities came to terms with the Israelites; all were taken          
by storm.  It was the Lord's purpose that they should offer an obstin-      
ate resistance to the Israelites in battle, and that thus they should be        
annihilated without mercy and utterly destroyed, as the Lord had com-      
manded Moses.         
   It was thenthat Joshua proceeded to wipe out the Anakim from the          
hill-country, from Hebron, Debir, Anab, all the hill-country of Judah and          
all the hill-country of Israel, destroying both them and their cities.  No         
Anakim were left in the land taken by the Israelites; they survived only in        
Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.       
   Thus Joshua took the whole country, fulfilling all the commands that        
the Lord had laid on Moses; he assigned it as Israel's patrimony, allotting         
to each tribe its share; and the land was at peace.           

12   These are the names of the kings of the land whom the Israelites slew,          
and whose territory they occupied beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise            
from the gorge of the Arnon as far as Mount Hermon and all the Arabah         
on the east.  Sihon the Amorite king who lived in heshbon: his rule ex-         
tended from Aroer, which is on the edge of the gorge of Anon, along            
the middle of the gorge and over half Gilead as far as the gorge of the Jabbok, 
the Ammonite frontier; along the Arabah as far as the eastern side of the     
Sea of Kinnereth and as far as the eastern side of the sea of the Arabah,         
the Dead Sea, by the road to Beth-jeshimoth and from Teman under the           
watershed of Pisgah.  Og king of Bashan, one of the survivors of the Reph-          
aim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei: he uled over Mount Hermon,            
Salcah, all Bashan as far as the Geshurite and Maacathite borders, and half         
Gilead as far as the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon.  Moses the servant       
of the Lord put them to death, he and the Israelites, and he gave their land        
to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, as their          
possession.          
   These are the names of the kings whom Joshua and the Israelites put to        
death beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Vale of Lebanon         
as far as the bare mountain that leads up to Seir.  Joshua gave their land to          
the Israelite tribes to be their possession according to their allotted shares,       
in the hill-country, the Shephelah, the Arabah, the watersheds, the wilder-        
ness, and the Negeb; lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites,          
Hivites, Jebusites.  The king of Jericho; the king of Ai which is beside             
Bethel; the king of Jerusalem; the king of Hebron; the king of Jarmuth;         
the king of Lachish; the king of Eglon; the king of Gezer; the king of         
Debir; the king of Geder; the king of Hormah; the king of Arad; the king        
of Libnah; the king of Adullam; the king of Makkedah; the king of Bethel;       
the king of Tappuah; the king of Hepher; the king of Aphek; the king of           
Aphek-in-Sharon; the king of Madon; the king of Hazor; the king        
of Shimron-meron; the king of Akshaph; the king of Taanach; the king           
of Megiddo; the king of Kedesh; the king of Jokneam-in-Carmel; the        
king of Dor in the district of Dor; the king of Gaiam-in-Galilee; the king of       
Tirzah: thirty-one kings in all, one of each town.

The New English Bible (with Apocrypha)
Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, 1970