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Yausua kov yeej cov vaajntxwv saab peg

¹Thaus lub moos Haxau tug vaajntxwv Yanpi tau nov tej xuv nuav nwg txawm khaiv tuabneeg moog hu lub moos Mantoo tug vaajntxwv Yaunpam, hab lub moos Siloo tug vaajntxwv hab lub moos Asa tug vaajntxwv, ²hab hu cov vaajntxwv kws nyob peg toj sab saab tebchaws peg hab nyob huv Alanpa ntawm Khinelau⚓ saab nraag, hab huv tej pov roob Sefela hab huv Nafauntau kws nyob saab nub poob, ³hab hu cov Khana‑aa kws nyob saab nub tuaj hab saab nub poob, hab hu cov Amaulai, cov Hithai, cov Pelixai, cov Yenpu kws nyob peg toj sab hab cov Hivai kws nyob ntawm taw roob Hawmoo huv Mixapa tebchaws. ⁴Cov vaajntxwv huv tej moos hov kuj nrug puab tej tub rog huvsw tawm tuaj coob kawg le, ua tej nam paab tub rog coob npaum le tej xuab zeb ntawm ntug havtxwv, muaj neeg hab tsheb neeg ua rog coob kawg. ⁵Cov vaajntxwv nuav sau zog ua ke tuaj ua yeej rua ntawm lub haav dej Meloo yuav ua rog rua cov Yixayee.
⁶Mas Yawmsaub has rua Yausua tas, “Koj tsw xob ntshai puab le, tsua qhov pigkig lub swjhawm nuav kuv yuav muab puab taag nrho rua cov Yixayee, puab yuav raug tua tuag huvsw. Koj yuav txav puab cov neeg tej leeg rawg hab muab puab tej tsheb neeg ua rog hlawv huvsw.” ⁷Yausua hab nwg cov tub rog suavdawg txhad txeem plawg moog ntaus kag puab huv lub haav Meloo. ⁸Yawmsaub muab puab cob rua huv cov Yixayee txhais teg. Cov Yixayee tua puab hab lawv puab moog txug ncua lub tuam nroog Xaintoo hab txug Milefauma‑i, hab lawv puab moog rua saab nub tuaj moog txug lub haav Mixape, muab puab tua tuag taag tsw tseg ib tug caj sa le. ⁹Yausua ua rua puab lawv nraim le kws Yawmsaub has, nwg txav puab cov neeg tej leeg rawg hab hlawv tej tsheb ua rog.
¹⁰Thaus hov Yausua tig rov lug txeeb lub moos Haxau hab xuas ntaaj tua tug vaajntxwv huv lub moos hov. Ua ntej hov Haxau ua thawj kaav taag nrho tej tebchaws hov. ¹¹Yausua puab xuas ntaaj tua txhua tug kws nyob huv lub moos hov hab ua kuas puam tsuaj taag huvsw, tsw tshuav ib tug caj sa le, hab nwg muab lub moos Haxau hlawv pov tseg. ¹²Yausua txeeb tau cov vaajntxwv hov tej moos huvsw hab nteg tau cov vaajntxwv hov huvsw, hab xuas ntaaj tua ua kuas puam tsuaj taag huvsw lawv le Mauxe kws yog Yawmsaub tug tub qhe has ca lawd. ¹³Tassws tej moos kws nyob sau tej lub nyuas pov roob mas cov Yixayee tsw muab hlawv, Yausua tsuas hlawv lub moos Haxau xwb. ¹⁴Tej hov txhua chaw kws txeeb tau huvsw ntawm tej moos hov hab tej tsaj txhu mas cov Yixayee kuj coj moog yuav ua puab tug. Puab xuas ntaaj tua txhua tug tuabneeg huvsw puam tsuaj tuag taag huvsw tsw tseg ib tug caj sa le. ¹⁵Yawmsaub has le caag rua nwg tug tub qhe Mauxe lawm Mauxe kuj has le hov rua Yausua mas Yausua ua lawv nraim. Nwg tsw tseg ib yaam daabtsw kws Yawmsaub has rua Mauxe lawd tsw ua.

Yausua txeeb lub tebchaws huvsw

¹⁶Yausua txeeb tau lub tebchaws hov huvsw le kws has nuav, yog tej toj sab hab Neke hab Kausee tebchaws huvsw, hab tej pov roob Sefela hab Alanpa hab tej toj sab hab tej nruab tag huv Yixayee, ¹⁷txwj ncua ntawm roob Halab kws sawv ntawm Xe‑i moog txug ncua Npa‑aa Kas huv lub haav Lenpanoo ntawm taw roob Hawmoo. Yausua nteg txhua tug vaajntxwv huv tej tebchaws hov ntaus hab tua pov tseg. ¹⁸Yausua ua rog rua tej vaajntxwv hov txhua tug ntev loo. ¹⁹Tsw muaj ib lub moos kws yuav nrug cov Yixayee sws raug zoo, tsuas yog tshwj cov Hivai xwb kws nyob huv lub moos Kinpe‑oo, dua le mas puab ua rog ntaus tau huvsw lug xwb. ²⁰Vem yog Yawmsaub ua rua puab lub sab tawv sub puab txhad sawv lug ua rog rua cov Yixayee mas txhad raug ua kuas puam tsuaj huvsw, tsw tau txais kev khuvleej, tassws raug muab ua puam tsuaj ntxuav du quas lug, lawv le kws Yawmsaub has rua Mauxe.
²¹Thaus hov Yausua tau tuaj muab cov Anaj kws nyob peg toj sab ntxuav pov tseg kuas tawm huv Heploo, Ntenpi hab Anab hab tawm huv tej toj sab huv Yuta hab tej toj sab huv Yixayee huvsw. Yausua muab tej tuabneeg nuav hab puab tej moos ua puam tsuaj taag huvsw. ²²Tsw tshuav ib tug tuabneeg Anaj nyob huv cov Yixayee lub tebchaws le, tsuas yog tshuav ib txha nyob huv Kaxa hab Ka hab Asantau. ²³Ua le kws has nuav Yausua txeeb tau lub tebchaws taag nrho lawv le txhua lu lug kws Yawmsaub has rua Mauxe. Hab Yausua muab faib ua qub txeeg qub teg rua cov Yixayee lawv le puab cov quas xeem le feem. Mas lub tebchaws hov txhad su tsw ua rog lawm.

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Northern Kings Defeated

¹When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Akshaph, ²and to the northern kings who were in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in Naphoth Dor on the west; ³to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below Hermon in the region of Mizpah. ⁴They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and chariots—a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. ⁵All these kings joined forces and made camp together at the Waters of Merom to fight against Israel.
⁶The Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.”
⁷So Joshua and his whole army came against them suddenly at the Waters of Merom and attacked them, ⁸and the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel. They defeated them and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim, and to the Valley of Mizpah on the east, until no survivors were left. ⁹Joshua did to them as the Lord had directed: He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.
¹⁰At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword. (Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.) ¹¹Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed⚓ them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself.
¹²Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. ¹³Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds—except Hazor, which Joshua burned. ¹⁴The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed. ¹⁵As the Lord commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it; he left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses.
¹⁶So Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the whole region of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with their foothills, ¹⁷from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and put them to death. ¹⁸Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time. ¹⁹Except for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the Israelites, who took them all in battle. ²⁰For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
²¹At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns. ²²No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive.
²³So Joshua took the entire land, just as the Lord had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.