Joshua 9:26
Joshua did as they said; he kept the Israelites from killing them
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27and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the LORD at the divinely chosen site.(They continue in that capacity to this very day.)
- Josh 9:21-255 verses78%
21The leaders then added,“Let them live.” So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided.
22Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them,“Why did you trick us by saying,‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby?
23Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
24They said to Joshua,“It was carefully reported to your subjects how the LORD your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.
25So now we are in your power. Do to us what you think is good and appropriate.”
- Josh 11:6-94 verses77%
6The LORD told Joshua,“Don’t be afraid of them, for about this time tomorrow I will cause all of them to lie dead before Israel. You must hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.”
7Joshua and his whole army caught them by surprise at the Waters of Merom and attacked them.
8The LORD handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, Misrephoth Maim, and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.
9Joshua did to them as the LORD had commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.
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30The LORD handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel put the sword to all who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to its king what they had done to the king of Jericho.
- Josh 10:26-272 verses75%
26Then Joshua executed them and hung them on five trees. They were left hanging on the trees until evening.
27At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave.(They remain to this very day.)
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26Joshua kept holding out his curved sword until Israel had annihilated all who lived in Ai.
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22At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees.
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15Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.
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14The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people and allowed no one who breathed to live.
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20Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.
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24Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.
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23This is why the LORD permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; he did not hand them over to Joshua.
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8The LORD told Joshua,“Don’t be afraid of them, for I am handing them over to you. Not one of them can resist you.”
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33the LORD our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons and everyone else.
- Josh 10:39-402 verses72%
39They captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king what they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.
40Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.
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24When they brought the kings out to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the troops who accompanied him,“Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came up and put their feet on their necks.
- Josh 11:19-202 verses71%
19No city made peace with the Israelites(except the Hivites living in Gibeon); they had to conquer all of them,
20for the LORD determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.
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6Joshua rewarded them and sent them on their way; they returned to their homes.
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12Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.
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4The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.
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35That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish.
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10He delivered them from the power of the one who hated them, and rescued them from the power of the enemy.
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24They told Joshua,“Surely the LORD is handing over all the land to us! All who live in the land are cringing before us!”
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16The Israelites fled from before the Judahite army, and God handed them over to the men of Judah.
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10The LORD routed them before Israel. Israel thoroughly defeated them at Gibeon. They chased them up the road to the pass of Beth Horon and struck them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah.