¹⁹ Except for the Hivites^(A) living in Gibeon,^(B) not one city made a treaty of peace^(C) with the Israelites, who took them all in battle. ²⁰ For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts^(D) to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.^(E)

²¹ At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites^(F) from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir^(G) and Anab,^(H) from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns.