The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

The Lord will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

with the harvest produced by the daylight and by the moonlight;

the Negev, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of the date palm trees, as far as Zoar.

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

If you should report what we’ve been up to, we are not bound by this oath you made us swear.”

About forty thousand battle-ready troops marched past the Lord to fight on the plains of Jericho.

They ate some of the produce of the land the day after the Passover, including unleavened bread and roasted grain.

So about three thousand men went up, but they fled from the men of Ai.

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

Joshua said, “Open the cave’s mouth and bring the five kings out of the cave to me.”

All these kings gathered and joined forces at the Waters of Merom to fight Israel.

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

The land allotted to the tribe of Gad by its clans included these cities and their towns.

The land assignments to the nine-and-a-half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the Lord had instructed Moses.

The Israelites followed the Lord’s instructions to Moses and divided up the land.

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.