Joshua 11:16-23

16 So Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the whole region of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with their foothills,

17 from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and put them to death.

18 Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time.

19 Except for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the Israelites, who took them all in battle.

20 For it was the LORD himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

21 At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns.

22 No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive.

23 So Joshua took the entire land, just as the LORD had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.

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Joshua 11:16-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 11

This chapter relates how that the kings of the northern parts of Canaan combine together against Joshua, Jos 11:1-5; and that the Lord encouraged him to fight with them, and did deliver them into his hands, who, with all their people, were smitten by him, Jos 11:6-11; and how that he took their cities, and destroyed the inhabitants of them, and took the spoil of them for a prey, Jos 11:12-15; and so became master of the whole country, both southern and northern, which is described Jos 11:16-20; and the chapter is concluded with an account of his cutting off the Anakim from various parts, which finished the conquest of the whole land, Jos 10:21-23.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 25

1. Numbers 13:17
2. S Deuteronomy 1:7
3. S Joshua 10:41
4. S Genesis 14:6; S Numbers 24:18; S Deuteronomy 33:2
5. Joshua 13:5
6. S Deuteronomy 3:25; Joshua 12:7
7. Deuteronomy 3:9; Joshua 12:8
8. Deuteronomy 7:24
9. S Joshua 9:1
10. S Joshua 9:3
11. S Joshua 9:15
12. S Exodus 4:21; S Exodus 14:17; Romans 9:18
13. Deuteronomy 7:16; Judges 14:4
14. S Numbers 13:22,33; Deuteronomy 9:2
15. S Joshua 10:3
16. Joshua 15:50
17. S Genesis 10:19
18. Joshua 12:17; Joshua 19:13; 1 Samuel 5:8; 1 Samuel 17:4; 1 Kings 2:39; 2 Kings 14:25; 1 Chronicles 8:13; Amos 6:2
19. Joshua 15:47; 1 Samuel 5:1; Isaiah 20:1
20. Joshua 21:43-45; Nehemiah 9:24
21. S Deuteronomy 1:38; Deuteronomy 12:9-10; S Deuteronomy 25:19; S Joshua 13:7
22. S Numbers 26:53
23. Psalms 105:44
24. S Exodus 33:14
25. Joshua 14:15

Joshua 11:16-23

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Joshua 11:16-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 11

Cross References 25