Bible Strands
Joshua 11:18
Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long period of time.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Joshua acts as the military commander executing the final phase of the northern conquest. This statement follows the geographic summary of his campaign from Mount Halak to Baal-gad and precedes the record of the Hivites of Gibeon securing peace.
The words — The Hebrew text emphasizes יָמִים רַבִּים (yamim rabbim, "many days") and עָשָׂה ('asah, "he did"), directly modifying the duration of Joshua's warfare against all these kings.
The thread — The prolonged campaign fulfills the territorial promise recorded in Joshua 11:23 and connects to the forty-year span Joshua references in Joshua 14:7 regarding the initial reconnaissance and conquest mandate.
Why it lands — The verse records the factual length of the military operations without commentary, requiring the reader to account for the sustained effort required to subdue every city before the land distribution began.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
Cross-references
- Joshua 11:23 So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
- Joshua 14:7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him an honest report.