³⁵And they captured it on that day, and he struck it with the edge of the sword,^b and all the people that were in it on that day he utterly destroyed as he had done to Lachish.

³⁶And Joshua went up, and all Israel with him, from Eglon to Hebron, and they fought against it ³⁷and captured it, and they struck it with the edge of the sword,^c its king and all its cities, and all the people that were in it; he left behind no survivor, as he had done to Eglon, and he utterly destroyed it and all the people that were in it. ³⁸Then Joshua returned to Debir, and all of Israel with him, and they fought against it, ³⁹and he captured it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with the the edge of the sword,^d and they utterly destroyed all the people that were in it; he left behind no survivor, just as he had done to Hebron. Thus he did to Debir and its king what he had done to Libnah and its king.

⁴⁰So Joshua struck all the land—the hill country, the Negev,^e the Shephelah,^f and the slopes^g—and all their kings; he left behind no survivor, and all that breathed^h he utterly destroyed as Yahweh the God of Israel commanded.

Read in Logos

Footnotes

bLiterally “the mouth of the sword”
cLiterally “the mouth of the sword”
dLiterally “the mouth of the sword”
eAn arid region south of the Judaean hills
fOr “lowlands”; a geographical region on the western edge of the hills of Judea
gThe slopes of the hills of the western Jordan to the Dead Sea region
hLiterally “all of the breath”