JOSHUA 11:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.”
The northern cities systematically conquered — As for all the other cities of these kings, Joshua took them, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded. The verb sequence—took, struck, destroyed—is repeated for all remaining northern cities. The phrase 'as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded' invokes the divine mandate for the ban given through Moses (cf. Deuteronomy 20:16-18). Joshua's conquest is presented as faithful execution of a divine statute.
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