Joshua 11:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

As for the towns made on hills of earth, not one was burned by Israel but Hazor, which was burned by Joshua.

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  • Jer 30:18 : 18 The Lord has said, See, I am changing the fate of the tents of Jacob, and I will have pity on his houses; the town will be put up on its hill, and the great houses will be living-places again.

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  • Josh 11:6-12
    7 verses
    85%

    6And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.

    7So Joshua and all the men of war with him came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and made an attack on them.

    8And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them driving them back to great Zidon and to Misrephoth-maim and into the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they put them all to death, no man got away safely.

    9And Joshua did to them as the Lord had said to him; he had the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.

    10At that time, Joshua went on to take Hazor and put its king to the sword: for in earlier times Hazor was the chief of all those kingdoms.

    11And they put every person in it to death without mercy, giving every living thing up to the curse, and burning Hazor.

    12And all the towns of these kings, and all the kings, Joshua took, and put them to the sword: he gave them up to the curse, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had said.

  • Josh 11:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    14And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.

    15As the Lord had given orders to Moses his servant, so Moses gave orders to Joshua, and so Joshua did; every order which the Lord had given to Moses was done.

  • Josh 10:30
    77%

    30And again the Lord gave it and its king into the hands of Israel; and he put it and every person in it to the sword, till their destruction was complete; and he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

  • Josh 6:24
    76%

    24Then, after burning up the town and everything in it, they put the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron into the store-house of the Lord's house.

  • Josh 10:39-41
    3 verses
    76%

    39And he took it, with its king and all its towns: and he put them to the sword, giving every person in it to the curse; all were put to death: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king.

    40So Joshua overcame all the land, the hill-country and the South and the lowland and the mountain slopes, and all their kings; all were put to death: and every living thing he gave up to the curse, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.

    41Joshua overcame them from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen as far as Gibeon.

  • Josh 11:18-21
    4 verses
    76%

    18For a long time Joshua made war on all those kings.

    19Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.

    20For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

    21And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and their towns to the curse.

  • Josh 8:26-28
    3 verses
    75%

    26For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.

    27But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua.

    28So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.

  • Num 31:10
    74%

    10And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,

  • Josh 10:20
    74%

    20Now when Joshua and the children of Israel had come to the end of their war of complete destruction, and had put to death all but a small band who had got safely into the walled towns,

  • Deut 13:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

    16And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.

  • Josh 8:8
    73%

    8And when you have taken the town, put fire to it, as the Lord has said: see, I have given you your orders.

  • Josh 10:37
    72%

    37And took it, overcoming it and putting it and its king and its towns and every person in it to the sword: as he had done to Eglon, he put them all to death, and gave it up to the curse with every person in it.

  • Josh 6:21
    72%

    21And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.

  • Deut 20:16
    71%

    16But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:

  • Deut 3:6
    71%

    6And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children.

  • Josh 8:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had been taken by the surprise attack, and that the smoke of the town had gone up, turning round they overcame the men of Ai.

    22Then the other force came out of the town against them, so that they were being attacked on this side and on that: and Israel overcame them and let not one of them get away with his life.

  • Josh 10:33
    71%

    33Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to the help of Lachish; and Joshua overcame him and his people, putting all of them to death.

  • Josh 10:28
    70%

    28That day Joshua took Makkedah, and put it and its king to the sword; every soul in it he gave up to the curse without mercy: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

  • Judg 2:23
    70%

    23So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.

  • Josh 10:35
    70%

    35And that day they took it, putting it and every person in it to the sword, as he had done to Lachish.

  • Josh 8:19
    70%

    19Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.

  • Deut 2:34-35
    2 verses
    70%

    34At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:

    35Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.

  • Josh 8:17
    70%

    17There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unwatched while they went after Israel.

  • Josh 8:24
    69%

    24Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in the field and in the waste land where they went after them, and when all the people had been put to death without mercy, all Israel went back to Ai, and put to death all who were in it without mercy.

  • Num 21:2
    69%

    2Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns.

  • Josh 6:1
    69%

    1(Now Jericho was all shut up because of the children of Israel: there was no going out or coming in.)