So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.<n id="1" />

The Israelites killed Balaam son of Beor, the omen reader,<n id="1" /> along with the others.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When Israel had finished killing all the men<n id="1" /> of Ai who had chased them toward the desert<n id="2" /> (they all fell by the sword),<n id="3" /> all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time the <sc>Lordsc> told Joshua, &#8220;Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.&#8221;<n id="1" />

They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city,<n id="1" /> including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they<n id="1" /> annihilated it just as they<n id="2" /> had done to Lachish.p>

They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword<n id="1" /> &#8211; no one who breathed remained &#8211; and burned<n id="2" /> Hazor.p>

I sent terror<n id="1" /> ahead of you to drive out before you the two<n id="2" /> Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When Joshua was near<n id="1" /> Jericho,<n id="2" /> he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword.<n id="3" /> Joshua approached him and asked him, &#8220;Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?&#8221;<n id="4" />

As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from<n id="1" /> Beth Horon, the <sc>Lordsc> threw down on them large hailstones from the sky,<n id="2" /> all the way to Azekah. They died &#8211; in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">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.<n id="1" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel<n id="1" /> put the sword to all who lived there; they<n id="2" /> left no survivors. They<n id="3" /> did to its king what they<n id="4" /> had done to the king of Jericho.<n id="5" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> handed Lachish over to Israel and they<n id="1" /> captured it on the second day. They put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah.

They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they<n id="1" /> left no survivors. As they<n id="2" /> had done at Eglon, they<n id="3" /> annihilated it and all who lived there.p>

They<n id="1" /> captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they<n id="2" /> left no survivors. They<n id="3" /> did to Debir and its king what they<n id="4" /> had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="bodytext">At that time Joshua turned, captured Hazor,<n id="1" /> and struck down its king with the sword, for Hazor was at that time<n id="2" /> the leader of all these kingdoms.

<p class="bodytext">Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword,<n id="1" /> as Moses the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s servant had commanded.

The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people<n id="1" /> and allowed no one who breathed to live.

(The Danites failed to conquer their territory,<n id="1" /> so they went up and fought with Leshem and captured it. They put the sword to it, took possession of it, and lived in it. They renamed it<n id="2" /> Dan after their ancestor.<n id="3" />)