¹⁶ So Joshua took all that land, ^(A)the hill country and all the Negeb and ^(B)all the land of Goshen ^(C)and the lowland ^(D)and the Arabah ^(E)and the hill country of Israel and its lowland

⁴¹ And Joshua struck them from ^(A)Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of ^(B)Goshen, as far as Gibeon.

^8 (A)in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of ^(B)the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):

²¹ And Joshua came at that time and cut off ^(A)the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities.

⁸ “But you, O mountains of Israel, ^(A)shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for ^(B)they will soon come home.

Prophecy to the Mountains of Israel

36 “And you, ^(A)son of man, prophesy to ^(B)the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. ² Thus says the Lord God: Because ^(C)the enemy said of you, ^(D)‘Aha!’ and, ‘The ancient ^(E)heights have become our possession,’ ³ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Precisely because ^(F)they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and ^(G)you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,

^23 (A)On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. ^(B)And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest.

² and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the ^(A)Arabah south of ^(B)Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and ^(C)in Naphoth-dor on the ^(D)west,

The Gibeonite Deception

9 As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan ^(A)in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast ^(B)of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, ^(C)the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,