They told Joshua, “We will do everything you say. We will go wherever you send us.

They told Joshua, “Surely the Lord is handing over all the land to us! All who live in the land are cringing before us!”

That day the Lord brought honor to Joshua before all Israel. They respected him all his life, just as they had respected Moses.

He has done this so all the nations of the earth might recognize the Lord’s power and so you might always obey the Lord your God.”

This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt.

Twelve thousand men and women died that day, including all the men of Ai.

but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt them!

They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword – no one who breathed remained – and burned Hazor.

Their territory started at Mahanaim and encompassed all Bashan, the whole realm of King Og of Bashan, including all sixty cities in Havvoth Jair in Bashan.

the king of Tirzah (one), a total of thirty-one kings.

This is the land that remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all the Geshurites,

from Ekron westward, all those in the vicinity of Ashdod and their towns;

The rest of the Kohathite clans received ten cities and their grazing areas.

The Gershonite clans received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.

They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they left no survivors. As they had done at Eglon, they annihilated it and all who lived there.

Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua conquered the whole land, including the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the lowlands, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel and its lowlands,

Look! The ark of the covenant of the Ruler of the whole earth is ready to enter the Jordan ahead of you.

and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the Lord and the priests crossed as the people looked on.

When all the men had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they had healed.