But don’t you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! Don’t allow them to retreat to their cities, for the Lord your God is handing them over to you.”

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

That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish.

But Israel did not burn any of the cities located on mounds, except for Hazor; it was the only one Joshua burned.

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

My countrymen who accompanied me frightened the people, but I remained loyal to the Lord my God.

Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then.

One time Acsah came and charmed her father so that she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

It then extended on to the sea, with Micmethath on the north. It turned eastward to Taanath Shiloh and crossed it on the east to Janoah.

The Ephraimites did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites live among the Ephraimites to this very day and do hard labor as their servants.

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

The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting. Though they had subdued the land,

Pick three men from each tribe. I will send them out to walk through the land and make a map of it for me.

Divide it into seven regions. Judah will stay in its territory in the south, and the family of Joseph in its territory in the north.

But as for you, map out the land into seven regions and bring it to me. I will draw lots for you here before the Lord our God.

Joshua drew lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord and divided the land among the Israelites according to their allotted portions.

When they finished dividing the land into its regions, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun some land.

“Have the Israelites select the cities of refuge that I told you about through Moses.

They assigned them Kiriath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding grazing areas.

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