13 Remember(A) your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self:(B) ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars(C) in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land(D) I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’”

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16 So Joshua took this entire land: the hill country,(A) all the Negev,(B) the whole region of Goshen, the western foothills,(C) the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with their foothills, 17 from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir,(D) to Baal Gad(E) in the Valley of Lebanon(F) below Mount Hermon.(G) He captured all their kings and put them to death.(H) 18 Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time. 19 Except for the Hivites(I) living in Gibeon,(J) not one city made a treaty of peace(K) with the Israelites, who took them all in battle. 20 For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts(L) to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.(M)

21 At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites(N) from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir(O) and Anab,(P) from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns. 22 No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza,(Q) Gath(R) and Ashdod(S) did any survive.

23 So Joshua took the entire land,(T) just as the Lord had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance(U) to Israel according to their tribal divisions.(V) Then the land had rest(W) from war.(X)

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The lands included the hill country, the western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, the wilderness and the Negev.(A) These were the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. These were the kings:(B)

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“As for all the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim,(A) that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out(B) before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have instructed you,(C) and divide it as an inheritance(D) among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.”

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He has shown his people the power of his works,(A)
    giving them the lands of other nations.(B)

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