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lands in the mountains, the western foothills, and the Arabah Valley, on the slopes, and in the wilderness and the Negev desert (lands on which Hittites, Amorites and Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites had lived). The kings were:
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he king of Jericho one The king of Ai (near Bethel) one
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he king of Jerusalem one The king of Hebron one
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