Joshua 11:18-20

The Voice

^17-18 from Mount Halak, near Seir, to Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. Wherever he went in that land—and it was a long war—he captured their kings and defeated them and executed them. ¹⁹ The only people who were not destroyed in battle were the Gibeonites (Hivites) who had made peace with the Israelites. ²⁰ The Eternal boosted the courage of Israel’s enemies so they would come out and oppose Israel as nations receiving no favor but only to be utterly destroyed, just as the Eternal had commanded Moses.