Joshua 10:28

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Joshua Launches a Southern Campaign That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho.

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  • Josh 6:21 : 21 They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.
  • Josh 8:2 : 2 Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!”
  • Josh 10:30 : 30 The LORD handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel put the sword to all who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to its king what they had done to the king of Jericho.
  • Josh 10:32 : 32 The LORD handed Lachish over to Israel and they captured it on the second day. They put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah.
  • Josh 10:35 : 35 That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish.
  • Josh 10:37 : 37 They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they left no survivors. As they had done at Eglon, they annihilated it and all who lived there.
  • Josh 10:39 : 39 They captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king what they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.
  • Josh 15:41 : 41 Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah– a total of sixteen cities and their towns.
  • Ps 21:8-9 : 8 You prevail over all your enemies; your power is too great for those who hate you. 9 You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.
  • Ps 110:1 : 1 A psalm of David. Here is the LORD’s proclamation to my lord:“Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!”
  • Luke 19:27 : 27 But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”
  • 1 Cor 15:25 : 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
  • Deut 7:2 : 2 and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!
  • Deut 7:16 : 16 Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism You must destroy all the people whom the LORD your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
  • Deut 20:16-17 : 16 Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive. 17 Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,

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  • Josh 10:29-33
    5 verses
    83%

    29Joshua and all Israel marched from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against it.

    30The LORD handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel put the sword to all who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to its king what they had done to the king of Jericho.

    31Joshua and all Israel marched from Libnah to Lachish. He deployed his troops and fought against it.

    32The LORD handed Lachish over to Israel and they captured it on the second day. They put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah.

    33Then King Horam of Gezer came up to help Lachish, but Joshua struck him down, as well as his army, until no survivors remained.

  • Josh 10:37-41
    5 verses
    82%

    37They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they left no survivors. As they had done at Eglon, they annihilated it and all who lived there.

    38Joshua and all Israel turned to Debir and fought against it.

    39They captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king what they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.

    40Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.

    41Joshua conquered the area between Kadesh Barnea and Gaza and the whole region of Goshen, all the way to Gibeon.

  • Josh 11:7-14
    8 verses
    82%

    7Joshua and his whole army caught them by surprise at the Waters of Merom and attacked them.

    8The LORD handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, Misrephoth Maim, and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

    9Joshua did to them as the LORD had commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.

    10At that time Joshua turned, captured Hazor, and struck down its king with the sword, for Hazor was at that time the leader of all these kingdoms.

    11They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword– no one who breathed remained– and burned Hazor.

    12Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.

    13But Israel did not burn any of the cities located on mounds, except for Hazor; it was the only one Joshua burned.

    14The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people and allowed no one who breathed to live.

  • Josh 10:35
    81%

    35That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish.

  • Josh 10:27
    79%

    27At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave.(They remain to this very day.)

  • Josh 10:10
    76%

    10The LORD routed them before Israel. Israel thoroughly defeated them at Gibeon. They chased them up the road to the pass of Beth Horon and struck them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah.

  • Josh 10:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.

    21Then the whole army safely returned to Joshua at the camp in Makkedah. No one dared threaten the Israelites.

  • Josh 11:21
    74%

    21At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country– from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel. Joshua annihilated them and their cities.

  • Josh 6:21
    74%

    21They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

  • Josh 8:26
    73%

    26Joshua kept holding out his curved sword until Israel had annihilated all who lived in Ai.

  • Josh 10:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16The five Amorite kings ran away and hid in the cave at Makkedah.

    17Joshua was told,“The five kings have been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”

  • Exod 17:13
    73%

    13So Joshua destroyed Amalek and his army with the sword.

  • Josh 8:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound(it remains that way to this very day).

    29He hung the king of Ai on a tree, leaving him exposed until evening. At sunset Joshua ordered that his corpse be taken down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and erected over it a large pile of stones(it remains to this very day).

  • Josh 11:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17from Mount Halak on up to Seir, as far as Baal Gad in the Lebanon Valley below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and executed them.

    18Joshua campaigned against these kings for quite some time.

  • Josh 8:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23But they captured the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

    24When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had chased them toward the wilderness(they all fell by the sword), all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.

  • Josh 10:24
    71%

    24When they brought the kings out to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the troops who accompanied him,“Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came up and put their feet on their necks.

  • Deut 13:15
    71%

    15you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.

  • Deut 31:4
    70%

    4The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.