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The Conquest of Canaan

Joshua 1–12 · the taking of the land

    The Conquest of CanaanJoshua 1–12 · c. 1400 BC. The three lines are the campaigns of Joshua 3-9, 10 and 11, each returning to the camp at Gilgal (10:43). The six washed nations divide the land between them here, but hold those divisions loosely: Deuteronomy 7:1 lists seven peoples, not seven countries. Scripture sets the Canaanites by the sea and along the Jordan, the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites and Perizzites in the hill country (Numbers 13:29, Joshua 11:3), the Hivites under Hermon and at Gibeon (11:3, 9:7), the Jebusites at Jerusalem (15:63), and the Amorites also in the country of Sihon and Og beyond Jordan. Everything narrower than that — where one people ends and the next begins — is this map’s judgment and is recorded nowhere. They were in any case mixed rather than partitioned: Joshua 10:5 calls the king of Jerusalem an Amorite where Judges 1:21 calls his city’s people Jebusites. Only the Girgashites are left off, named in every list and placed in none. Uncolored ground is outside the seven, not unclaimed: the Negev of the Amalekites, the coast toward Egypt, and beyond Jordan Moab, Ammon, Aram and the desert east of them. Gilgal, Makkedah, Eglon and Merom have no secure identification and are placed at the sites most often proposed; read those four as approximate. Jerusalem is given its pre-Israelite name, Jebus. Mt Hermon Mt Carmel Mt Ebal Mt Gerizim JORDAN CANAANITES CANAANITES AMORITES AMORITES HIVITES HITTITES PERIZZITES THE GREAT SEA CHINNERETH THE SALT SEA Shittim Gilgal Jericho Ai Bethel Gibeon Jebus Beth-horon Gezer Azekah Jarmuth Makkedah Libnah Lachish Eglon Hebron Debir Beersheba Arad Shechem Shiloh Megiddo Taanach Dor Merom Hazor Kedesh Laish Gaza Ashkelon Joppa Tyre Sidon Heshbon The centerJoshua 3–9The southJoshua 10The northJoshua 11The camp at GilgalHighlandAmoritesCanaanitesHittitesHivitesJebusitesPerizzitesGirgashitesnot locatedNation borders are the plate's judgment 1001020304050MILES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

    The Conquest of Canaan

    Joshua 1–12 · c. 1400 BC

    The three lines are the campaigns of Joshua 3-9, 10 and 11, each returning to the camp at Gilgal (10:43). The six washed nations divide the land between them here, but hold those divisions loosely: Deuteronomy 7:1 lists seven peoples, not seven countries. Scripture sets the Canaanites by the sea and along the Jordan, the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites and Perizzites in the hill country (Numbers 13:29, Joshua 11:3), the Hivites under Hermon and at Gibeon (11:3, 9:7), the Jebusites at Jerusalem (15:63), and the Amorites also in the country of Sihon and Og beyond Jordan. Everything narrower than that — where one people ends and the next begins — is this map’s judgment and is recorded nowhere. They were in any case mixed rather than partitioned: Joshua 10:5 calls the king of Jerusalem an Amorite where Judges 1:21 calls his city’s people Jebusites. Only the Girgashites are left off, named in every list and placed in none. Uncolored ground is outside the seven, not unclaimed: the Negev of the Amalekites, the coast toward Egypt, and beyond Jordan Moab, Ammon, Aram and the desert east of them. Gilgal, Makkedah, Eglon and Merom have no secure identification and are placed at the sites most often proposed; read those four as approximate. Jerusalem is given its pre-Israelite name, Jebus.

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