Joshua 11:16–23

¹⁶So Joshua took all that land, ^xthe hill country and all the Negeb and ^yall the land of Goshen ^zand the lowland ^zand the Arabah ^aand the hill country of Israel and its lowland ^17bfrom Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as ^cBaal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below ^dMount Hermon. And he captured ^eall their kings and struck them and put them to death. ¹⁸Joshua made war ^fa long time with all those kings. ¹⁹There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel except ^gthe Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took them all in battle. ²⁰For it was the Lord’s doing ^hto harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, ⁱjust as the Lord commanded Moses.

²¹And Joshua came at that time and cut off ^jthe 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 devoted them to destruction with their cities. ²²There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, ^kin Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain. ²³So Joshua took the whole land, ^laccording to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. ^mAnd Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel ⁿaccording to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.