² And the Lord thy God shall give them ^[a]before thee, then thou shalt smite them: thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no ^(A)covenant with them, nor have compassion on them,

¹¹ Moreover they smote all the ^[a]persons that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying all, leaving none alive, and he burnt Hazor with fire.

¹² So 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 utterly destroyed them, ^(A)as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.