Joshua · Chapter 11

[ edit] The whiche þingis whanne herd Jabyn, þe kyng of Aſor, he ſente to Jodab, kyng of Madiam, and to þe kyng of Semeron, and to þe kyng of Acſaph, and to þe kyngs of þe norþ, þat dwelten in mounteyns, and in þe pleyn aȝens þe ſouþ of Seneroþ, and in þe wijld feeldis, and regiouns of Dor, biſidis þe ſee, and to Chanane fro þe eeſt and weſt, and Ammorre, and Eþee, and Phereze, and Jebuſe in þe mounteyns, and Euee, þat dwelt in þe rotis of Hermon, in þe loond of Maſpha. And alle wenten out wiþ her companyes, ful myche puple, as þe grauel þat is in þe brenk of þe ſee, and hors, and chaaris, of multitude wiþ outen noumbre.

And alle þes kyngis camen to gydre in oon at þe watris of Meron, for to fiȝt aȝens Yrael. And þe Lord ſeide to Joſue, Ne drede þow hem, to morwe forſoþe þis ſame our Y ſchal taak hem alle to be woundid in þe ſiȝt of Yrael; þe hors of hem þow ſhalt kut of þe ſynewis at þe knees, and þe chaaris þow ſhalt brenne wiþ fier. And Joſue cam, and al his ooſt wiþ hym, aȝens hem, at þe watris of Meron ſodeynlich, and felle vpon hem. And þe Lord took hem into þe hoondis of Yrael; þe whiche ſmyten hem, and purſuden vnto greet Sydon, and to watris of Maſerephoh, and to þe feeld of Maſphe, þat is at þe eſt part of it.

So he ſmoot alle, þat noon of hem relikis he lefte; and he dide as þe Lord comaundide to hym; þe hors of hem he kuttide þe ſinewis at þe knee, and þe charys he brente. And turned aȝen anoon he took Aſor, and þe kyng of it he ſmoot wiþ ſwerd; forſoþe Aſor bi oold tyme among alle þeſe rewmes heelde þe princehod. And he ſmoot alle lyues þat þere dwelten, he lefte not in it eny relikis, but vnto þe deeþ alle þingis he waaſtide; and þat cytee he deſtruyede wiþ brennynge.

And alle þe citees bi enuyroun and þe kyngis of hem he took, and ſmoot, and dide awey, as Moyſes, þe ſeruaunt of þe Lord, comaundide to hym, wiþ out þe citees þat weren in þe hillis, and in þe hillokis ſet; and þe oþer Yrael brente vp; oon onelich, þe mooſt ſtrengþid, Azor, flawme brente vp. And al þe praye of þes citees, and beeſtis, þe ſones of Yrael dyuydeden to hem ſelf, alle þe enemyes ſlayn. As þe Lord comaundide to his ſeruaunt Moyſes, ſo Moyſes comaundide to Joſue, and he alle þingis fulfillide; and he paſſide not biſide of alle þe maundementis, forſoþe ne o word, þat þe Lord comaundide to Moyſes.

And ſo Joſue took al þe mounteyn loond, and þe ſouþ loond, and Goſen, and þe pleyn, and þe weſt cooſt, and þe hil of Yrael, and þe wijld feeldis of it; and a paart of þe hil þat ſteieþ vp to Seyr vnto Baalgaþ, bi þe pleyn of Libany vndur þe hil of Hermon; alle þe kyngis of hem he took, and ſmoot, and ſlewȝ. Myche tyme fauȝt Joſue aȝens þes kyngis; þere was no cyte, þat took hym not to þe ſones of Yrael, ſaue Euee þat dwellid in Gabaon; alle wiþ fiȝtynge he took. Forſoþe þe ſentence of þe Lord it was, þat þe hertis of hem weren ful hardid, and ſhulde fiȝte aȝens Yrael, and falle, and þei ſhulde not diſſerue eny mercy, but ſhulden periſſhe, as þe Lord hadde comaundid to Moyſes.

In þat tyme Joſue cam, and ſlewȝ Enachym, fro þe mownteyns of Ebron, and Dabir, and Anab, and of al þe hil of Juda, and of Yrael, and þe cytees of hem he dide awey. He lefte not eny of þe ſtok of Enachym in þe loond of þe ſones of Yrael, out taak þe cytees of Gaza, and Geþ, and Azoto, in þe whiche aloon þei ben left. Þanne Joſue took al þe loond, as þe Lord ſpak to Moyſes, and took it into poſſeſſioun to þe ſones of Yrael, after paarties and her lynagis; and þe loond reſtyde fro bateil.