◄ Joshua 11:9 ►
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Good News Translation
Joshua did to them what the LORD had commanded: he crippled their horses and burned their chariots.

New Revised Standard Version
And Joshua did to them as the LORD commanded him; he hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.

New American Bible
Joshua did to them as the LORD had commanded: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he did as the Lord had commanded him, he hamstringed their horses and burned their chariots.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he did as the Lord had commanded him, he hamstringed their horses and burned their chariots.

he houghed

Joshua 11:6 And the Lord said to Joshua: Fear them not: for to morrow at this same hour I will deliver all these to be slain in the sight of Israel: thou shalt hamstring their horses, and thou shalt burn their chariots with fire.

Ezekiel 39:9,10 And the inhabitants shall go forth of the cities of Israel, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, the shields, and the spears, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves and the pikes: and they shall burn them with fire seven years. . . .

Context
Conquest of the Northern Cities
…8And the Lord delivered them into the hands of Israel. And they defeated them, and chased them as far as the great Sidon and the waters of Maserophot, and the field of Masphe, which is on the east thereof. He slew them all, so as to leave no remains of them: 9And he did as the Lord had commanded him, he hamstringed their horses and burned their chariots.10And presently turning back he took Asor: and slew the king thereof with the sword. Now Asor of old was the head of all these kingdoms.…
Cross References
Genesis 49:6
Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall.

Joshua 11:6
And the Lord said to Joshua: Fear them not: for to morrow at this same hour I will deliver all these to be slain in the sight of Israel: thou shalt hamstring their horses, and thou shalt burn their chariots with fire.

2 Samuel 8:4
And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and houghed all the chariot horses: and only reserved of them for one hundred chariots.

Nahum 2:13
Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn thy chariots even to smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey out of the land, and the voice of thy messengers shall be heard no more.

Joshua 11:8
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