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    Bible Quotes for July 3

Conquest, Murder, and Plunder

    So Joshua and his warriors traveled to the water near Merom and attacked suddenly.  And the LORD gave them victory over their enemies.  The Israelites chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward into the valley of Mizpah, until not one enemy warrior was left alive.  Then Joshua crippled the horses and burned all the chariots, as the LORD had instructed.  Joshua then turned back and captured Hazor and killed its king.  (Hazor had at one time been the capital of the federation of all these kingdoms.)  The Israelites completely destroyed every living thing in the city.  Not a single person was spared.  And then Joshua burned the city.  Joshua slaughtered all the other kings and their people, completely destroying them, just as Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded.  However, Joshua did not burn any of the cities built on mounds except Hazor.  And the Israelites took all the captured goods and cattle of the ravaged cities for themselves, but they killed all the people.  As the LORD had commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua.  And Joshua did as he was told, carefully obeying all of the LORD's instructions to Moses.   (Joshua 11:7-15 NLT)