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39 and he captured it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with the the edge of the sword,[a] and they utterly destroyed all the people that were in it; he left behind no survivor, just as he had done to Hebron. Thus he did to Debir and its king what he had done to Libnah and its king.

40 So Joshua struck all the land—the hill country, the Negev,[b] the Shephelah,[c] and the slopes[d]—and all their kings; he left behind no survivor, and all that breathed[e] he utterly destroyed as Yahweh the God of Israel commanded. 41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen up to Gibeon;

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 10:39 Literally “the mouth of the sword”
  2. Joshua 10:40 An arid region south of the Judaean hills
  3. Joshua 10:40 Or “lowlands”; a geographical region on the western edge of the hills of Judea
  4. Joshua 10:40 The slopes of the hills of the western Jordan to the Dead Sea region
  5. Joshua 10:40 Literally “all of the breath”