When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.

When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

You must have a spade among your other equipment and when you relieve yourself outside you must dig a hole with the spade and then turn and cover your excrement.

When you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

They went to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them to return. Their pursuers looked all along the way but did not find them.

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

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?”

Joshua kept holding out his curved sword until Israel had annihilated all who lived in Ai.

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live near us. So how can we make a treaty with you?”

Three days after they made the treaty with them, the Israelites found out they were from the local area and lived nearby.

Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, “Why did you trick us by saying, ‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby?

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

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

The border of Manasseh went from Asher to Micmethath which is near Shechem. It then went south toward those who live in Tappuah.

But the men of Manasseh were unable to conquer these cities; the Canaanites managed to remain in those areas.

in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said, “The Lord told Moses to assign us cities in which to live along with the grazing areas for our cattle.”

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

Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered their land and I destroyed them from before you.