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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 12:22c. 1450 BC

    the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

  2. Joshua 12:23c. 1450 BC

    the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

  3. Joshua 12:24c. 1450 BC

    the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.

  4. Joshua 13:1c. 1444 BC

    Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. The LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.

  5. Joshua 13:2c. 1444 BC

    “This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

  6. Joshua 13:3c. 1444 BC

    from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,

  7. Joshua 13:4c. 1444 BC

    on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;

  8. Joshua 13:5c. 1444 BC

    and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;

  9. Joshua 13:6c. 1444 BC

    all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.

  10. Joshua 13:7c. 1444 BC

    Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

  11. Joshua 13:8c. 1444 BC

    With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them:

  12. Joshua 13:9c. 1444 BC

    from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;

  13. Joshua 13:10c. 1444 BC

    and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;

  14. Joshua 13:11c. 1444 BC

    and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;

  15. Joshua 13:12c. 1444 BC

    all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.

  16. Joshua 13:13c. 1444 BC

    Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.

  17. Joshua 13:14c. 1444 BC

    Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The offerings of the LORD, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.

  18. Joshua 13:15c. 1444 BC

    Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

  19. Joshua 13:16c. 1444 BC

    Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;

  20. Joshua 13:17c. 1444 BC

    Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

  21. Joshua 13:18c. 1444 BC

    Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

  22. Joshua 13:19c. 1444 BC

    Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,

  23. Joshua 13:20c. 1444 BC

    Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,

  24. Joshua 13:21c. 1444 BC

    all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

  25. Joshua 13:22c. 1444 BC

    The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.