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circa 1406–1380 BC

Conquest of Canaan

Joshua leads Israel across the Jordan into the promised land, defeating the Canaanite kingdoms one by one.

658 verses · 1 book covered

Verses from This Period

  1. Joshua 11:20c. 1450 BC

    For it was ADONAI who caused them to harden their hearts and come against Isra'el in battle, so that they would be utterly destroyed, so that they would not find favor but be destroyed, in keeping with the orders ADONAI had given Moshe.

  2. Joshua 11:21c. 1450 BC

    Y'hoshua at that time came and cut off the 'Anakim from the land - from Hevron, D'vir, 'Anav and from all the hill-country of Y'hudah and Isra'el; Y'hoshua utterly destroyed them and their cities.

  3. Joshua 11:22c. 1450 BC

    No 'Anakim were left in the land of the people of Isra'el - only in 'Azah, Gat and Ashdod did some remain.

  4. Joshua 11:23c. 1450 BC

    Y'hoshua took the whole land, in keeping with all that ADONAI had said to Moshe and to Isra'el according to their divisions into tribes. Then the land rested from war.

  5. Joshua 12:1c. 1450 BC

    These are the kings of the land whom the people of Isra'el defeated and of whose land they took possession, across the Yarden toward the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon and all the 'Aravah eastward:

  6. Joshua 12:2c. 1450 BC

    Sichon king of the Emori, who lived in Heshbon and ruled the territory that includes 'Aro'er, at the edge of the Arnon Valley; the middle of the valley; half of Gil'ad, to the Yabok River, which forms the border with the people of 'Amon;

  7. Joshua 12:3c. 1450 BC

    the 'Aravah to Lake Kinneret eastward and to the sea of the 'Aravah, the Dead Sea, eastward by way of Beit-Yeshimot and on the south under the slopes of Pisgah.

  8. Joshua 12:4c. 1450 BC

    There was also the territory of 'Og king of Bashan, who belonged to the remnant of the Refa'im. He lived at 'Ashtarot and at Edre'i;

  9. Joshua 12:5c. 1450 BC

    and he ruled Mount Hermon; Salkhah; all Bashan, to the border with the G'shuri and the Ma'akhati; and half of Gil'ad, to its border with Sichon king of Heshbon.

  10. Joshua 12:6c. 1450 BC

    Moshe the servant of ADONAI, with the people of Isra'el, defeated them; and Moshe the servant of ADONAI gave it to the Re'uveni, the Gadi and the half-tribe of M'nasheh as their possession.

  11. Joshua 12:7c. 1450 BC

    Following are the kings of the land whom Y'hoshua, with the people of Isra'el, defeated in the area west of the Yarden, between Ba'al-Gad in the L'vanon Valley and the bare mountain that goes up to Se'ir. Y'hoshua gave this land, inhabited by the Hitti, Emori, Kena'ani, P'rizi, Hivi and Y'vusi, to the tribes of Isra'el to possess, according to their divisions, in the hills, the Sh'felah, the 'Aravah, the mountain slopes, the desert and the Negev:

  12. Joshua 12:8c. 1450 BC

    In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

  13. Joshua 12:9c. 1450 BC

    the king of Yericho, the king of 'Ai, by Beit-El,

  14. Joshua 12:10c. 1450 BC

    the king of Yerushalayim, the king of Hevron,

  15. Joshua 12:11c. 1450 BC

    the king of Yarmut, the king of Lakhish,

  16. Joshua 12:12c. 1450 BC

    the king of 'Eglon, the king of Gezer,

  17. Joshua 12:13c. 1450 BC

    the king of D'vir, the king of Geder,

  18. Joshua 12:14c. 1450 BC

    the king of Hormah, the king of 'Arad,

  19. Joshua 12:15c. 1450 BC

    the king of Livnah, the king of 'Adulam,

  20. Joshua 12:16c. 1450 BC

    the king of Makkedah, the king of Beit-El,

  21. Joshua 12:17c. 1450 BC

    the king of Tapuach, the king of Hefer,

  22. Joshua 12:18c. 1450 BC

    the king of Afek, the king of Sharon,

  23. Joshua 12:19c. 1450 BC

    the king of Madon, the king of Hatzor,

  24. Joshua 12:20c. 1450 BC

    the king of Shimron-M'ron, the king of Akhshaf,

  25. Joshua 12:21c. 1450 BC

    the king of Ta'anakh, the king of Megiddo,