Joshua 11:13

Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.

In Context

12Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and put them to the sword. He devoted them to destruction, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.

14The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.

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Cross References

Joshua 24:13So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’

Matthew Henry on Joshua 11:11-15

Joshua's Victories. ( b. c. 1450.) 10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms. 11 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire. 12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as… Read the whole commentary →

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