11:13a

Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds: Here is another way to translate this sentence:

But Israel burned none of the towns that stood on mounds (New Revised Standard Version)

Israel: The noun Israel indicates Joshua and the Israelite army.

their mounds: Some towns were built on top of the ruins of other older towns. When this happened many times at these sites, the mounds, or small hills, were formed. Joshua did not destroy these towns.

Here is another way to translate this word:

small hills (Contemporary English Version)

11:13b

except Hazor, which Joshua burned: The clause except Hazor indicates that Hazor was the only town on a mound that the Israelites captured and burned during the battle in the north.

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