No city made peace with the Israelites (except the Hivites living in Gibeon);<n id="1" /> they had to conquer all of them,<n id="2" />

My countrymen<n id="1" /> who accompanied<n id="2" /> me frightened the people,<n id="3" /> but I remained loyal to the <sc>Lordsc> my God.<n id="4" />

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.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">One time Acsah<n id="1" /> came and charmed her father<n id="2" /> so that she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, &#8220;What would you like?&#8221;

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.

<p class="bodytext">The Ephraimites<n id="1" /> 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.p>

But the men<n id="1" /> of Manasseh were unable to conquer these cities; the Canaanites managed<n id="2" /> to remain in those areas.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting.<n id="1" /> Though they had subdued the land,<n id="2" />

Pick three men from each tribe. I will send them out to walk through the land and make a map of it for me.<n id="1" />

Divide it into seven regions.<n id="1" /> Judah will stay<n id="2" /> in its territory in the south, and the family<n id="3" /> 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 <sc>Lordsc> our God.

Joshua drew lots for them in Shiloh before the <sc>Lordsc> and divided the land among the Israelites according to their allotted portions.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When they finished dividing the land into its regions, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun some land.<n id="1" />

&#8220;Have the Israelites select<n id="1" /> the cities of refuge<n id="2" /> 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.

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors,<n id="1" /> and they conquered<n id="2" /> it and lived in it.

The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders<n id="1" /> of the Israelite clans:

We swear we have done this because we were worried that<n id="1" /> in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, &#8216;What relationship do you have with the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel?<n id="2" />

You saw everything the <sc>Lordsc> your God did to all these nations on your behalf, for the <sc>Lordsc> your God fights for you.<n id="1" />