Joshua 10:40

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Joshua captured towns everywhere in the land: in the central hill country and the foothills to the west, in the Southern Desert and the region that slopes down towards the Dead Sea. Whenever he captured a town, he would kill the king and everyone else, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.

Cross References

1 Kings 15:29

The LORD's prophet Ahijah had earlier said, “Not one man or boy in Jeroboam's family will be left alive.” And, as soon as Baasha became king, he killed everyone in Jeroboam's family,

Nehemiah 9:24

Then their descendants conquered the land. You helped them defeat the kings and nations and treat their enemies however they wished.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked will go down to the world of the dead to be with those nations that forgot about you.

Exodus 34:12

Don't make treaties with any of those people. If you do, it will be like falling into a trap.

Numbers 13:17

Before Moses sent them into Canaan, he said: After you go through the Southern Desert of Canaan, continue north into the hill country

Deuteronomy 1:7

Leave this place and go into the land that belongs to the Amorites and their neighbours the Canaanites. This land includes the valley of the River Jordan, the hill country, the western foothills, the Southern Desert, the Mediterranean coast, the Lebanon Mountains, and all the territory as far as the River Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 2:34

Then we captured and destroyed every town in Sihon's kingdom, killing everyone,

Joshua 10:35

captured it that same day, then killed everyone, as they had done at Lachish.

Joshua 10:37

They captured the town and the nearby villages, then killed everyone, including the king. They destroyed Hebron in the same way they had destroyed Eglon.

Joshua 10:39

They captured the town, and its nearby villages. Then they destroyed Debir and killed its king, together with everyone else, just as they had done with Hebron and Libnah.

Joshua 11:16

Joshua and his army took control of the northern and southern hill country, the foothills to the west, the Southern Desert, the whole region of Goshen, and the Jordan valley.

Joshua 18:21

One region of Benjamin's tribal land had twelve towns with their surrounding villages. Those towns were Jericho, Beth-Hoglah, Emek-Keziz, Beth-Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, Chephar-Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba.

Joshua 6:17

But you must destroy it and everything in it, to show that it now belongs to the LORD. The woman Rahab helped the spies we sent, so protect her and the others who are inside her house. But kill everyone else in the town.

Joshua 8:27

But the Israelites took the animals and the other possessions of the people of Ai, because this was what the LORD had told Joshua to do.

Joshua 9:24

The Gibeonites answered, “The LORD your God told his servant Moses that you were to kill everyone who lives here and take their land for yourselves. We were afraid you would kill us, and so we tricked you into making a peace treaty. But we agreed to be your servants,