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Joshuas conquest catalog of thirty-one defeated Canaanite city-states names the kings of the northern coalition — Madon Hazor Shimron-meron Achshaph and Lasharon — defeated when Jabin of Hazor mustered the northern kings at the Waters of Merom.
Joshua 12:7-20 catalogs the thirty-one Canaanite city-state kings Joshua and Israel defeated west of the Jordan, including the northern coalition: "The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; The king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one." The northern coalition had mustered at the Waters of Merom under Jabin of Hazor (Joshua 11:1-11), assembling armies with horses and chariots as numerous as the sand on the seashore. Joshua executed a surprise forced march, routed them, and burned their head city Hazor to the ground.
Every king in the north pools their armies into one massive coalition — horses, chariots, soldiers like sand on the seashore — and aims it all at Israel. What follows is the final campaign, the fall of the giants who haunted a generation, and six quiet words an entire nation had been waiting decades to hear: the land had rest from war.
JoshuaThirty-One Kings DownAfter eleven chapters of battles, the writer stops and counts. Two kings under Moses, thirty-one under Joshua — every one named, every territory claimed. It's the biblical equivalent of showing your work, and the record speaks for itself.
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