Joshua 11:16-23

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁶ So Joshua took all this land: the hill country,^[a] all the Negev,^[b] all the land of Goshen,^[c] the Shephelah,^[d] the Arabah,^[e] the mountainous region of Israel and its foothills, ¹⁷ from Mount Halak that rises to Seir, as far as Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings. He struck them and put them to death. ¹⁸ For many days^[f] Joshua made war with all these kings. ¹⁹ There was no city that made peace with the people of Israel except for the Hivites living in Gibeon. The Israelites took them all in battle, ²⁰ for it was the Lord who hardened their hearts so that they would confront Israel in battle and would be devoted to destruction, and they would not receive mercy but would be destroyed, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²¹ At that time Joshua went and cut off the Anakites^[g] 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 and their cities to destruction. ²² There were no Anakites remaining in the land of the Israelites. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod were they left. ²³ So Joshua took the whole land according to everything the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their allotments for their tribes. Then the land rested from war.