in Hazor,<n id="1" /> Ramah, and Gittaim,

<p class="poetry">the king of Madon (one),p> <p class="poetry">the king of Hazor<n id="1" /> (one),p>

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

Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor,

<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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When King Jabin of Hazor<n id="1" /> heard the news, he organized a coalition, including<n id="2" /> King Jobab of Madon, the king of Shimron, the king of Acshaph,

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>

But Israel did not burn any of the cities located on mounds,<n id="1" /> except for Hazor;<n id="2" /> it was the only one Joshua burned.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But they forgot the <sc>Lordsc> their God, so he gave<n id="1" /> them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor&#8217;s<n id="2" /> army,<n id="3" /> and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Two years later Absalom&#8217;s sheepshearers were in Baal Hazor,<n id="1" /> near Ephraim. Absalom invited all the king&#8217;s sons.

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Hazor will become a permanent wasteland,p> <p class="poetry">a place where only jackals live.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">No one will live there.p> <p class="poetry">No human being will settle in it.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Now Sisera ran away on foot to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, for King Jabin of Hazor<n id="1" /> and the family of Heber the Kenite had made a peace treaty.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke about Kedar<n id="1" /> and the kingdoms of Hazor<n id="2" /> that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon conquered.p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Army of Babylon,<n id="3" /> go and attack Kedar.p> <p class="poetry">Lay waste those who live in the eastern desert.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Flee quickly, you who live in Hazor.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Take up refuge in remote places.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">For King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has laid out plans to attack you.p> <p class="poetry">He has formed his strategy on how to defeat you.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

During Pekah&#8217;s reign over Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor,<n id="1" /> Gilead, and Galilee, including all the territory of Naphtali. He deported the people<n id="2" /> to Assyria.