There has not been a day like it before or since. The Lord obeyed a man, for the Lord fought for Israel!

Joshua captured in one campaign all these kings and their lands, for the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.

So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, and they conquered it and lived in it.

A long time passed after the Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies, and Joshua was very old.

At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees.

Joshua conquered the whole land, just as the Lord had promised Moses, and he assigned Israel their tribal portions. Then the land was free of war.

I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.”

Israel worshiped the Lord throughout Joshua’s lifetime and as long as the elderly men who outlived him remained alive. These men had experienced firsthand everything the Lord had done for Israel.