Joshua 11:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁹ Joshua treated them as the Lord had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And Joshua did to them as the Lord had commanded him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And Joshua did unto them as Jehovah bade him: he hocked their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

Common English Bible

⁹ Joshua dealt with them exactly as the LORD had told him. He crippled their horses and burned their chariots.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And he did just as the Lord had instructed him. He hamstrung their horses, and he burned their chariots with fire.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And he did as the Lord had commanded him: he hamstringed their horses and burned their chariots.

Joshua 11:9 Cross References

Genesis 49:6

May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For in their anger they kill men, and on a whim they hamstring oxen.

2 Samuel 8:4

David captured one thousand seven hundred horsemen  and twenty thousand foot soldiers from him, and he hamstrung all the horses  and kept a hundred chariots.

Nahum 2:13

Beware, I am against you. This is the declaration of the  Lord of Armies. I will make your chariots go up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the sound of your messengers will never be heard again.

Joshua 11:6

The Lord said to Joshua, ‘Do not be afraid of them, for at this time tomorrow I will cause all of them to be killed before Israel.  You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.’