Conquests in Northern Canaan

11 When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he ^zsent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, 2 and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the ^aArabah south of ^bChinneroth, and in the lowland, and ^cin Naphoth-dor on the ^dwest, 3 to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the ^eJebusites in the hill country, and the ^fHivites under ^gHermon in the land of ^hMizpah. 4 And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number ⁱlike the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots. 5 And all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.

6 And the Lord said to Joshua, ^j“Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall ^khamstring their horses and burn their ^lchariots with fire.” 7 So Joshua and all his warriors came ^msuddenly against them by the waters of Merom and fell upon them. 8 And the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as ⁿGreat Sidon and ^oMisrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of ^pMizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining. 9 And Joshua did to them ^qjust as the Lord said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

10 And Joshua turned back at that time and captured ^rHazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms. 11 And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction;^{1 s}there was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire. 12 And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, ^tjust as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. 13 But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor alone; that Joshua burned. 14 And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the people of Israel took for their plunder. But every person they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed. 15 ^uJust as the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, ^vso Moses commanded Joshua, ^wand so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

16 So 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 17 ^bfrom 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. 18 Joshua made war ^fa long time with all those kings. 19 There 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. 20 For 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.

21 And 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. 22 There 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. 23 So 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.

Kings Defeated by Moses

12 Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from ^othe Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all ^pthe Arabah eastward: 2 ^qSihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and ^rfrom the middle of the valley as far as the ^sriver Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead, 3 and ^pthe Arabah ^tto the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of ^uthe slopes of Pisgah; 4 and ^vOg¹ king of Bashan, one of the remnant of ^wthe Rephaim, ^xwho lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei 5 and ruled over ^yMount Hermon and ^zSalecah and all Bashan ^ato the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon. 6 ^bMoses, the servant of the Lord, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the Lord ^cgave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Kings Defeated by Joshua

7 And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to ^dMount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession ^eaccording to their allotments, 8 ^fin the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of ^gthe Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites): 9 ^hthe king of Jericho, one; ⁱthe king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; 10 ^jthe king of Jerusalem, one; ^jthe king of Hebron, one; 11 ^jthe king of Jarmuth, one; ^jthe king of Lachish, one; 12 ^jthe king of Eglon, one; ^kthe king of Gezer, one; 13 ^lthe king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; 14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; 15 ^mthe king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; 16 ⁿthe king of Makkedah, one; ^othe king of Bethel, one; 17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; 18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; 19 ^pthe king of Madon, one; ^qthe king of Hazor, one; 20 ^pthe king of Shimron-meron, one; ^pthe king of Achshaph, one; 21 ^rthe king of Taanach, one; ^rthe king of Megiddo, one; 22 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; 23 ^rthe king of Dor in ^sNaphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee,² one; 24 the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.

Land Still to Be Conquered

13 Now Joshua ^twas old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land ^uto possess. 2 ^vThis is the land that yet remains: all the ^wregions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites 3 (from the ^xShihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; ^ythere are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of ^zthe Avvim, 4 in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of ^athe Amorites, 5 and the land of the ^bGebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from ^cBaal-gad below Mount Hermon to ^dLebo-hamath, 6 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to ^eMisrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive ^fthem out from before the people of Israel. Only ^gallot the land to Israel ^hfor an inheritance, as I have commanded you. 7 Now therefore ⁱdivide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

The Inheritance East of the Jordan

8 With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh¹ the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, ^jwhich Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them: 9 ^kfrom Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and ^lall the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon; 10 ^mand all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites; 11 and Gilead, and the ⁿregion of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and ⁿall Bashan to Salecah; 12 ⁿall the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of ⁿthe remnant of the Rephaim); ^othese Moses had struck and driven out. 13 ^pYet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.

14 ^qTo the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.

15 And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans. 16 So their territory was from Aroer, ^rwhich is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by ^sMedeba; 17 with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; ^sDibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, 18 ^tand Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, 19 and ^uKiriathaim, and ^uSibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, 20 and ^vBeth-peor, and ^wthe slopes of Pisgah, and ^wBeth-jeshimoth, 21 that is, ^xall the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, ^ywhom Moses defeated with ^zthe leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. 22 ^zBalaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain. 23 And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.

24 Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans. 25 ^aTheir territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of ^bRabbah, 26 and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from ^cMahanaim to the territory of Debir,² 27 and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, ^dSuccoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of ^eChinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan. 28 This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.

29 And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans. 30 Their region extended from ^fMahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all ^gthe towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities, 31 and half Gilead, and ^hAshtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of ⁱMachir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.

32 These are the inheritances that Moses distributed ^jin the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho. 33 ^kBut to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, ^kjust as he said to them.

The Inheritance West of the Jordan

14 These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which ^lEleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit. 2 Their inheritance was ^mby lot, just as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes. 3 ⁿFor Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, ^obut to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. 4 For ^pthe people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance. 5 The people of Israel did ^qas the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land.

Caleb’s Request and Inheritance

6 Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^rKenizzite said to him, “You know ^swhat the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord ^tsent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. 8 But ^umy brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. 9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, ^v‘Surely the land ^won which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ 10 And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, ^xjust as he said, these ^yforty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day ^yeighty-five years old. 11 ^zI am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and ^afor going and coming. 12 So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the ^bAnakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”

13 Then Joshua ^cblessed him, and he gave ^dHebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, ^ebecause he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. 15 ^fNow the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba.¹ (Arba² was the greatest man among the Anakim.) ^gAnd the land had rest from war.

The Allotment for Judah

15 The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward ^hto the boundary of Edom, to ⁱthe wilderness of Zin at the farthest south. 2 And their south boundary ran from the end of the ^hSalt Sea, from the bay that faces southward. 3 It goes out southward of ^jthe ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka, 4 passes along to Azmon, goes out by ^kthe Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary. 5 And the east boundary is the ^hSalt Sea, to the mouth of the Jordan. And the boundary on the north side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan. 6 And the boundary goes up to ^lBeth-hoglah and passes along north of ^mBeth-arabah. And the boundary goes up to ⁿthe stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. 7 And the boundary goes up to Debir from ^othe Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite ^pthe ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. And the boundary passes along to the waters of ^pEn-shemesh and ends at ^qEn-rogel. 8 Then the boundary goes up by ^rthe Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite (^sthat is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley ^tof Rephaim. 9 Then the boundary extends from the top of the mountain ^uto the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and from there to the cities of Mount Ephron. Then the boundary bends around to Baalah (^vthat is, Kiriath-jearim). 10 And the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to ^wBeth-shemesh and passes along by ^xTimnah. 11 The boundary goes out ^yto the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then the boundary bends around to Shikkeron and passes along to Mount ^zBaalah and goes out to Jabneel. Then the boundary comes to an end at the sea. 12 And the west boundary was ^athe Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary around the people of Judah according to their clans.

13 According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, ^bKiriath-arba, that is, ^bHebron (Arba was the father of Anak). 14 And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, ^cSheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the descendants of Anak. 15 And he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir. ^dNow the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher. 16 And Caleb said, “Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.” 17 ^eAnd Othniel the son of Kenaz, ^fthe brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. 18 When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?” 19 She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans. 21 The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme south, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, ^gEder, Jagur, 22 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, 23 Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, 24 ^hZiph, Telem, Bealoth, 25 Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor), 26 Amam, Shema, Moladah, 27 Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet, 28 Hazar-shual, ⁱBeersheba, Biziothiah, 29 Baalah, Iim, Ezem, 30 Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah, 31 ^jZiklag, Madmannah, Sansannah, 32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.

33 And in the lowland, ^kEshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, 34 Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam, 35 ^lJarmuth, ^mAdullam, ⁿSocoh, ⁿAzekah, 36 Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages.

37 Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad, 38 Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel, 39 ^oLachish, Bozkath, ^pEglon, 40 Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish, 41 Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and ^qMakkedah: sixteen cities with their villages.

42 ^rLibnah, Ether, Ashan, 43 Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib, 44 ^sKeilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.

45 ^tEkron, with its towns and its villages; 46 from Ekron to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.

47 ^tAshdod, its towns and its villages; ^tGaza, its towns and its villages; to ^uthe Brook of Egypt, and ^vthe Great Sea with its coastline.

48 And in the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh, 49 Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (^wthat is, Debir), 50 Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim, 51 ^xGoshen, Holon, and ^yGiloh: eleven cities with their villages.

52 Arab, Dumah, Eshan, 53 Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah, 54 Humtah, ^zKiriath-arba (that is, ^zHebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages.

55 ^aMaon, ^aCarmel, ^bZiph, Juttah, 56 Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, 57 Kain, Gibeah, and ^cTimnah: ten cities with their villages.