Joshua 10:28-43

Living Bible

²⁸ On that same day Joshua destroyed the city of Makkedah and killed its king and everyone in it. Not one person in the entire city was left alive. ²⁹ Then the Israelis went to Libnah. ³⁰ There, too, the Lord gave them the city and its king. Every last person was slaughtered, just as at Jericho.

³¹ From Libnah they went to Lachish and attacked it. ³² And the Lord gave it to them on the second day; here, too, the entire population was slaughtered, just as at Libnah.

³³ During the attack on Lachish, King Horam of Gezer arrived with his army to try to help defend the city, but Joshua’s men killed him and destroyed his entire army.

^34-35 The Israeli army then captured Eglon on the first day and, as at Lachish, they killed everyone in the city. ³⁶ After leaving Eglon they went to Hebron ³⁷ and captured it and all of its surrounding villages, slaughtering the entire population. Not one person was left alive. ³⁸ Then they turned back to Debir, ³⁹ which they quickly captured with all of its outlying villages. And they killed everyone just as they had at Libnah.

⁴⁰ So Joshua and his army conquered the whole country—the nations and kings of the hill country, the Negeb, the lowlands, and the mountain slopes. They destroyed everyone in the land, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded, ⁴¹ slaughtering them from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and from Goshen to Gibeon. ⁴² This was all accomplished in one campaign, for the Lord God of Israel was fighting for his people. ⁴³ Then Joshua and his army returned to their camp at Gilgal.