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A Review of Joshua’s Conquests

16 So Joshua took all this land: the hill country, all the Negev,[a] all the land of Goshen,[b] the Shephelah,[c] the Arabah,[d] and the hill country of Israel and its Shephelah,[e] 17 from Mount Halak that rises to Seir and to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon[f] at the foot of[g] Mount Hermon; he captured all their kings, struck them, and killed them. 18 For many days Joshua made war with all these kings. 19 There was not a city that made peace with the Israelites[h] besides the Hivites[i] and the inhabitants of Gibeon—all were taken in battle.[j] 20 For it was Yahweh that hardened their hearts,[k] to meet Israel in war in order to utterly destroy them without mercy, that they would destroy them just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

21 At that time Joshua came and exterminated the Anakites from the hill country, from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. 22 None of the Anakites were left in the land of the Israelites;[l] some remained only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod. 23 Joshua took all the land according to all that Yahweh had spoken to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel, according to their tribal divisions, and the land rested from war.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 11:16 An arid region south of the Judaean hills
  2. Joshua 11:16 A southern region; the name means “on the mountains”
  3. Joshua 11:16 Or “lowlands”; a geographical region on the western edge of the hills of Judea
  4. Joshua 11:16 A dry region that runs south of the Sea of Galilee along the Jordan valley
  5. Joshua 11:16 Or “lowlands”; a geographical region on the western edge of the hills of Judea
  6. Joshua 11:17 Or “white mountain”
  7. Joshua 11:17 Literally “under”
  8. Joshua 11:19 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  9. Joshua 11:19 Hebrew “Hivite”
  10. Joshua 11:19 Literally “the all they took in the battle”
  11. Joshua 11:20 Literally “made their hearts strong”
  12. Joshua 11:22 Literally “sons/children of Israel”

16 So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah, and the hill-country of Israel, and the lowland of the same; 17 from [a]mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and put them to death. 18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. 19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in battle. 20 For it was of Jehovah to [b]harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might [c]utterly destroy them, that they [d]might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

21 And Joshua came at that time, and cut off 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 [e]utterly destroyed them with their cities. 22 There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain. 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Jehovah spake unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 11:17 Or, the bare mountain
  2. Joshua 11:20 Hebrew make strong.
  3. Joshua 11:20 Hebrew devote.
  4. Joshua 11:20 Or, might not sue for favor
  5. Joshua 11:21 Hebrew devoted.