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waging war for a long time to accomplish this. No one in this region made
peace with the Israelites except the Hivites of Gibeon. All the others were
defeated. For the Lord hardened their hearts and caused them to fight the
Israelites. So they were completely destroyed without mercy, as the Lord
had commanded Moses.
During this period Joshua destroyed all the descendants of Anak, who
lived in the hill country of Hebron, Debir, Anab, and the entire hill country of Judah and Israel. He killed them all and completely destroyed their
towns. None of the descendants of Anak were left in all the land of Israel,
though some still remained in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.
So Joshua took control of the entire land, just as the Lord had instructed
Moses. He gave it to the people of Israel as their special possession, dividing the land among the tribes. So the land finally had rest from war.
These are the kings east of the Jordan River who had been killed by the
Israelites and whose land was taken. Their territory extended from the
Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon and included all the land east of the Jor
dan Valley.
King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, was defeated. His
kingdom included Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon Gorge, and extended
from the middle of the Arnon Gorge to the Jabbok River, which serves
as a border for the Ammonites. This territory included the southern half
of the territory of Gilead. Sihon also controlled the Jordan Valley and regions to the e ast—from as far north as the Sea of Galilee to as far south
as the Dead Sea, including the road to Beth-jeshimoth and southward to
the slopes of Pisgah.
King Og of Bashan, the last of the Rephaites, lived at Ashtaroth and Ed
rei. He ruled a territory stretching from Mount Hermon to Salecah in the
north and to all of Bashan in the east, and westward to the borders of the
kingdoms of Geshur and Maacah. This territory included the northern
half of Gilead, as far as the boundary of King Sihon of Heshbon.
Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the Israelites had destroyed the
people of King Sihon and King Og. And M
oses gave their land as a possession to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
The following is a list of the kings that Joshua and the Israelite armies
defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the valley of
Lebanon to Mount Halak, which leads up to Seir. ( Joshua gave this land
to the tribes of Israel as their possession, including the hill country, the
western foothills, the Jordan Valley, the mountain slopes, the Judean