Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 11:6

6 ¶ And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses , and burn their charets with fire.

i. e. Cut their Hamstrings that they may be unfit for War. For God forbad them to have, or keep many Horses, Deut. 17. 16. now especially, that they might not trust to their Horses, as men are apt to do, nor distrust God for want of so necessary an help in Battel; nor ascribe the Conquest of the land to their own strength, but wholly to God, by whose power alone a company of raw and unexperienced Footmen were able to subdue so potent a people, which besides their great Numbers, and Giants, and walled Cities, had the advantage of many thousands of Horses and Chariots.