Conquest of Southern Canaan
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Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to g Libnah; and they fought against Libnah.
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And the LORD also delivered it and its king into the hand of Israel; he struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword. He let none remain in it, but did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
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Then Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish; and they encamped against it and fought against it.
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And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, who took it on the second day, and struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
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Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he left him none remaining.
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From Lachish Joshua passed to Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it and fought against it.
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They took it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword; all the people who were in it he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
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So Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to h Hebron; and they fought against it.
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And they took it and struck it with the edge of the sword - its king, all its cities, and all the people who were in it; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but utterly destroyed it and all the people who were in it.
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Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to i Debir; and they fought against it.
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And he took it and its king and all its cities; they struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the people who were in it. He left none remaining; as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had done also to Libnah and its king.
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So Joshua conquered all the land: the j mountain country and the South and the lowland and the wilderness slopes, and k all their kings; he left none remaining, but l utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.
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And Joshua conquered them from m Kadesh Barnea as far as n Gaza, o and all the country of Goshen, even as far as Gibeon.
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All these kings and their land Joshua took at one time, p because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
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Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.
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Cross References
Joshua 15:42
Libnah, Ether, Ashan.
Joshua 21:13
Thus to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), Libnah with its common-land.
2 Kings 8:22
Thus Edom has been in revolt against Judah's authority to this day. And Libnah revolted at that time.
2 Kings 19:8
Then the Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.
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Cross References
Numbers 13:22
And they went up through the South and came to ...
Joshua 14:13 - 15
And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Cale...
Joshua 15:13
Now to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a sha...
Judges 1:10
Then Judah went against the Canaanites who dwel...
Judges 1:20
And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had sai...
2 Samuel 5:1
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at ...
2 Samuel 5:3
Therefore all the elders of Israel came to the ...
2 Samuel 5:5
In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and...
2 Samuel 5:13
And David took more concubines and wives from J...
2 Chronicles 11:10
Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah ...
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Cross References
Joshua 15:15
Then he went up from there to the inhabitants of Debir (formerly the name of Debir was Kirjath Sepher).
Judges 1:11
From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir was formerly Kirjath Sepher.)
1 Chronicles 6:58
Hilen with its common-lands, Debir with its common-lands.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:7
Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:24
And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; no one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:16
But of the cities of these peoples which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive.
Deuteronomy 20:17
But you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the LORD your God has commanded you.
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Cross References
Numbers 13:26
Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
Deuteronomy 9:23
Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe Him nor obey His voice.
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Cross References
Genesis 10:19
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
Joshua 11:22
None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.
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Cross References
Joshua 11:16
Thus Joshua took all this land: the mountain country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, and the Jordan plain - the mountains of Israel and its lowlands.
Joshua 15:51
Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages.
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Cross References
Joshua 10:14
And there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the LORD heeded the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.
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