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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 15:50c. 1443 BC

    Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,

  2. Joshua 15:51c. 1443 BC

    Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

  3. Joshua 15:52c. 1443 BC

    Arab, Dumah, Eshan,

  4. Joshua 15:53c. 1443 BC

    Janim, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah,

  5. Joshua 15:54c. 1443 BC

    Humtah, Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

  6. Joshua 15:55c. 1443 BC

    Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,

  7. Joshua 15:56c. 1443 BC

    Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

  8. Joshua 15:57c. 1443 BC

    Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.

  9. Joshua 15:58c. 1443 BC

    Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor,

  10. Joshua 15:59c. 1443 BC

    Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.

  11. Joshua 15:60c. 1443 BC

    Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

  12. Joshua 15:61c. 1443 BC

    In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,

  13. Joshua 15:62c. 1443 BC

    Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.

  14. Joshua 15:63c. 1443 BC

    As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

  15. Joshua 16:1c. 1443 BC

    The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.

  16. Joshua 16:2c. 1443 BC

    It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;

  17. Joshua 16:3c. 1443 BC

    and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and ended at the sea.

  18. Joshua 16:4c. 1443 BC

    The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

  19. Joshua 16:5c. 1443 BC

    This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.

  20. Joshua 16:6c. 1443 BC

    The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.

  21. Joshua 16:7c. 1443 BC

    It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.

  22. Joshua 16:8c. 1443 BC

    From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;

  23. Joshua 16:9c. 1443 BC

    together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

  24. Joshua 16:10c. 1443 BC

    They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.

  25. Joshua 17:1c. 1443 BC

    This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.