The Bible Story - Volume IV - Basil Wolverton - 1964

Basil Wolverton

PROMISED LAND OCCUPIED, THE end came for Jabin, king of Hazor, only minutes after he ordered the gates closed. The thousands upon thousands of Israelites swarmed up to the walls with their triple-hook ropes, hurled the heavy hooks over the walls and surged up and into the city in such numbers and force that the relatively few would-be defenders fell back in helpless fright. No Protection in Walls and Gates. The gates were stripped of their bars by the wall-scalers, and Israelite soldiers thronged into Hazor to promptly slay every Canaanite. The king was found hiding in remote quarters. No mercy was given to this idolatrous man who had plotted the destruction of the Israelite army. According to directions from Joshua, the Israelite soldiers set fire to Hazor as soon as their grisly task of slaying was done. It wasn't God's will that this capital city of idol-worshippers, long the home of pagan rulers, should continue to exist as a temptation in the land where God's chosen people were to dwell. (Joshua 11:1-11.) - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library