Two years later Absalom’s sheepshearers were in Baal Hazor, near Ephraim. Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (that is, Hazor),

in Hazor, Ramah, and Gittaim,

Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,

Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,

Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor,

the king of Madon (one), the king of Hazor (one),

At 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.

So Jehu eradicated Baal worship from Israel.

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

“Hazor will become a permanent wasteland, a place where only jackals live. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it.”

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

Heshbon and all its surrounding cities on the plain, including Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

his son Micah, his son Reaiah, his son Baal,

When King Jabin of Hazor heard the news, he organized a coalition, including King Jobab of Madon, the king of Shimron, the king of Acshaph,

The Lord turned them over to King Jabin of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. The general of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim.

He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal he had built in Samaria.

They abandoned the Lord and worshiped Baal and the Ashtars.

“But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s army, and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went to the temple of Baal. Jehu said to the servants of Baal, “Make sure there are no servants of the Lord here with you; there must be only servants of Baal.”