Joshua 11:11-23

11The Israelites killed everyone who lived there. Nothing in the city was left alive. They burned the city and destroyed it.

12Joshua took all these cities and he killed all their kings. He destroyed them all, as the Lord's servant Moses had told him to do.

13But the Israelites did not burn the cities that were built on small hills. Hazor was the only city like that which Joshua did burn.

14The Israelites took for themselves all the animals and the valuable things from those cities. But they killed all the people. They did not let any of them live.

15Moses had told all the Lord's commands to Joshua. Joshua obeyed all the Lord's commands. He did everything that the Lord had told Moses.

16Joshua's army won against all the people who were living in the land. He took the hill country, the Negev in the south, and the land of Goshen. He took the low hills in the west and the Jordan Valley. He took the mountains and the hills of Israel.

17The land went from Halak mountain near Edom country, to Baal Gad in the Lebanon valley, below Hermon mountain. He caught all the kings of those regions and he killed them all.

18Joshua was fighting against those kings for a long time.

19None of those kingdoms agreed not to fight against the Israelites, except the Hivites who lived in Gibeon. The Israelites fought battles against all the other kingdoms and they won.

20The Lord had caused the minds of those people to become hard. So they all decided to fight against the Israelites. The Lord wanted the Israelites to destroy those people completely, as he had commanded Moses.

21During that time, Joshua went to fight against the Anakites, who lived in the hill country. They lived in Hebron, Debir and Anab, and among the hills of Judah and Israel. Joshua destroyed them all, and all their towns.

22So no Anakites remained in Israel, except for a few who lived in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod.

23In that way, Joshua took the whole land. The Lord had promised Moses that he would give the land to his people. Joshua gave a part of the land to each tribe, for them to live in. After all that, the people did not have to fight any more.