¹⁶So Joshua took this entire land: the hill country,^e all the Negev,^f the whole region of Goshen, the western foothills,^g the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with their foothills, ¹⁷from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir,^h to Baal Gadⁱ in the Valley of Lebanon^j below Mount Hermon.^k He captured all their kings and put them to death.^l ¹⁸Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time. ¹⁹Except for the Hivites^m living in Gibeon,ⁿ not one city made a treaty of peace^o with the Israelites, who took them all in battle. ²⁰For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts^p to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.^q

²¹At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites^r from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir^s and Anab,^t from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns. ²²No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza,^u Gath^v and Ashdod^w did any survive.

²³So Joshua took the entire land,^x just as the Lord had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance^y to Israel according to their tribal divisions.^z Then the land had rest^a from war.^b

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Cross references

e Nu 13:17
fSee Dt 1:7
gSee Jos 10:41
hSee Ge 14:6; See Nu 24:18; See Dt 33:2
i Jos 13:5
jSee Dt 3:25; Jos 12:7
k Dt 3:9; Jos 12:8
l Dt 7:24
mSee Jos 9:1
nSee Jos 9:3
oSee Jos 9:15
pSee Ex 4:21; See 14:17; Ro 9:18
q Dt 7:16; Jdg 14:4
rSee Nu 13:22, 33
sSee Jos 10:3
t Jos 15:50
uSee Ge 10:19
v Jos 12:17; 19:13; 1 Sa 5:8; 17:4; 1 Ki 2:39; 2 Ki 14:25; 1 Ch 8:13; Am 6:2
w Jos 15:47; 1 Sa 5:1; Isa 20:1
x Jos 21:43–45; Ne 9:24
ySee Dt 1:38; 12:9–10; See 25:19; See Jos 13:7
zSee Nu 26:53; Ps 105:44
aSee Ex 33:14
b Jos 14:15