circa 1406–1380 BC
Conquest of Canaan
Joshua leads Israel across the Jordan into the promised land, defeating the Canaanite kingdoms one by one.
- Joshua 12:22c. 1450 BC
The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;
- Joshua 12:23c. 1450 BC
The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;
- Joshua 12:24c. 1450 BC
The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
- Joshua 13:1c. 1444 BC
¶ Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
- Joshua 13:2c. 1444 BC
This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
- Joshua 13:3c. 1444 BC
From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
- Joshua 13:4c. 1444 BC
From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
- Joshua 13:5c. 1444 BC
And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
- Joshua 13:6c. 1444 BC
All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
- Joshua 13:7c. 1444 BC
¶ Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
- Joshua 13:8c. 1444 BC
With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;
- Joshua 13:9c. 1444 BC
From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
- Joshua 13:10c. 1444 BC
And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
- Joshua 13:11c. 1444 BC
And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
- Joshua 13:12c. 1444 BC
All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
- Joshua 13:13c. 1444 BC
Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
- Joshua 13:14c. 1444 BC
Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.
- Joshua 13:15c. 1444 BC
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.
- Joshua 13:16c. 1444 BC
And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;
- Joshua 13:17c. 1444 BC
Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,
- Joshua 13:18c. 1444 BC
And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
- Joshua 13:19c. 1444 BC
And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley,
- Joshua 13:20c. 1444 BC
And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,
- Joshua 13:21c. 1444 BC
And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.
- Joshua 13:22c. 1444 BC
Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.