Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you.

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).

When the residents of Gibeon heard what Joshua did to Jericho and Ai,

Joshua did as they said; he kept the Israelites from killing them

Joshua conquered the area between Kadesh Barnea and Gaza and the whole region of Goshen, all the way to Gibeon.

Now, divide up this land among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

The Israelites killed Balaam son of Beor, the omen reader, along with the others.

Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron.

When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s brother, captured it, Caleb gave Acsah his daughter to him as a wife.

Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

seven Israelite tribes had not been assigned their allotted land.

The Jordan River borders it on the east. These were the borders of the land assigned to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans.

It then turned on the north to Hannathon and ended at the Valley of Iphtah El.

So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,

The people responded, “Far be it from us to abandon the Lord so we can worship other gods!

The people said to Joshua, “No! We really will worship the Lord!”

The people said to Joshua, “We will worship the Lord our God and obey him.”

They buried him in his allotted territory in Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there.

The men said to her, “If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we’ve been up to, then, when the Lord hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance to you.”