Verse 40

So Joshua overcame all the land, the hill-country and the South and the lowland and the mountain slopes, and all their kings; all were put to death: and every living thing he gave up to the curse, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 7:2-9 : 2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them: 3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons. 4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly. 5 But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire. 6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth. 7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations: 8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. 9 Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws; 10 Rewarding his haters to their face with destruction; he will have no mercy on his hater, but will give him open punishment. 11 So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them. 12 And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers. 13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you. 14 You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring. 15 And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters. 16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
  • Deut 7:24 : 24 He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.
  • Deut 20:16-17 : 16 But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death: 17 Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:
  • Deut 26:16-17 : 16 Today the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all these laws and decisions: so then keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul. 17 Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice:
  • Josh 6:17 : 17 And the town will be put to the curse, and everything in it will be given to the Lord: only Rahab, the loose woman, and all who are in the house with her, will be kept safe, because she kept secret the men we sent.
  • Josh 8:2 : 2 And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.
  • Josh 8:27 : 27 But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua.
  • Josh 9:24 : 24 And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.
  • Josh 10:35 : 35 And that day they took it, putting it and every person in it to the sword, as he had done to Lachish.
  • Josh 10:37 : 37 And took it, overcoming it and putting it and its king and its towns and every person in it to the sword: as he had done to Eglon, he put them all to death, and gave it up to the curse with every person in it.
  • Josh 12:8 : 8 In the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and on the mountain slopes, and in the waste land, and in the South; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  • Josh 15:21-63 : 21 The farthest towns of the tribe of Judah in the direction of the limits of Edom to the south, were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur; 22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah; 23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan; 24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth; 25 And Hazor-hadattah, and Kerioth-hezron (which is Hazor); 26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah; 27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-pelet; 28 And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah; 29 Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem; 30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah; 31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah; 32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the towns are twenty-nine, with their unwalled places. 33 In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah; 34 And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam; 35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah; 36 And Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. 37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad; 38 And Dilan, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel; 39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon; 40 And Cabbon, and Lahmas, and Chithlish; 41 And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen towns with their unwalled places. 42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan; 43 And Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib; 44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine towns with their unwalled places. 45 Ekron, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places; 46 From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of Ashdod, with their unwalled places. 47 Ashdod, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places; Gaza, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places, to the stream of Egypt, with the Great Sea as a limit. 48 And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh; 49 And Dannah, and Kiriath-sannah (which is Debir); 50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim; 51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven towns with their unwalled places. 52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan; 53 And Janim, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah; 54 And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), and Zior; nine towns with their unwalled places. 55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah; 56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah; 57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten towns with their unwalled places. 58 Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor; 59 And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six towns with their unwalled places. 60 Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two towns with their unwalled places. 61 In the waste land, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah; 62 And Nibshan, and the Town of Salt, and En-gedi; six towns with their unwalled places. 63 And as for the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, the children of Judah were unable to make them go out; but the Jebusites are living with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, to this day.
  • Josh 18:21-19:8 : 21 And the towns of the children of Benjamin, given to them in the order of their families, are Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-kezziz 22 And Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Beth-el 23 And Avvim and Parah and Ophrah 24 And Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns with their unwalled places; 25 Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth 26 And Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah 27 And Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah 28 And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families. 1 And the second heritage came out for the tribe of Simeon by their families; and their heritage was in the middle of the heritage of the children of Judah. 2 And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah 3 And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem 4 And Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah 5 And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah 6 And Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen towns with their unwalled places; 7 Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places; 8 And all the unwalled places round about these towns as far as Baalath-beer-ramah to the south. This is the heritage of the tribe of Simeon by their families.
  • Josh 19:40-48 : 40 For the tribe of Dan by their families the seventh heritage came out; 41 And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh 42 And Shaalabbin and Aijalon and Ithlah 43 And Elon and Timnah and Ekron 44 And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath 45 And Jehud and Bene-berak and Gath-rimmon; 46 And on the west was ... opposite Joppa. 47 (But the limit of the children of Dan was not wide enough for them; so the children of Dan went up and made war on Leshem and took it, putting it to the sword without mercy, and they took it for their heritage and made a place for themselves there, giving it the name of Leshem-dan, after the name of their father, Dan.) 48 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Dan by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.
  • 1 Kgs 15:29 : 29 And straight away when he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam; there was not one living person of all the family of Jeroboam whom he did not put to death, so the word of the Lord, which he said by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, came about;
  • Ps 9:17 : 17 The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.
  • 2 Thess 1:7-9 : 7 And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire, 8 To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus: 9 Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
  • Exod 23:31-33 : 31 I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you. 32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods. 33 Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.
  • Exod 34:12 : 12 But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.
  • Deut 1:7 : 7 Make a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.