He replaced them with their sons, whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.

So the Israelites camped in Gilgal and celebrated the Passover in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the plains of Jericho.

The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again.

They took it all from the middle of the tent, brought it to Joshua and all the Israelites, and placed it before the Lord.

There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a duplicate of the law written by Moses.

So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities – Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

The Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. The whole community criticized the leaders,

“Come to my aid so we can attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”

Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.

Then the whole army safely returned to Joshua at the camp in Makkedah. No one dared threaten the Israelites.

No city made peace with the Israelites (except the Hivites living in Gibeon); they had to conquer all of them,

Moses the Lord’s servant and the Israelites defeated them and Moses the Lord’s servant assigned their land to Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

But the Israelites did not conquer the Geshurites and Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this very day.

Their territory included Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half of Ammonite territory as far as Aroer near Rabbah.

The land allotted to the tribe of Judah by its clans reached to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin in the Negev far to the south.

went up to Beth Hoglah, crossed north of Beth Arabah, and went up to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

Caleb drove out from there three Anakites – Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.

These cities were located at the southern extremity of Judah’s tribal land near the border of Edom: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

The land allotted to Joseph’s descendants extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho to the east, through the desert and on up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.

The territory of the tribe of Ephraim by its clans included the following: The border of their assigned land to the east was Ataroth Addar as far as upper Beth Horon.