34. Then Joshua and all the Israelites went from Lachish to Eglon. They camped around Eglon and attacked it.
35. That day they captured Eglon. They killed all its people and completely destroyed everything in it as an offering to the Lord. This is the same thing they had done to Lachish.
36. Then Joshua and the Israelites went from Eglon to Hebron and attacked it.
37. They captured it and all the little towns near it. The Israelites killed everyone in Hebron. No one was left alive there. This was the same thing they had done to Eglon. They completely destroyed the city and all its people as an offering to the Lord.
38. Then Joshua and the Israelites went back to Debir and attacked it.
39. They captured that city, its king and all the little towns near it. They completely destroyed everyone in Debir as an offering to the Lord. No one was left alive there. Israel did to Debir and its king the same thing they had done to Libnah and its king. This was what they had done to Hebron.
40. So Joshua defeated all the kings of the cities of these areas: the mountains, southern Canaan, the western mountain slopes and the eastern mountain slopes. The Lord, the God of Israel, had told Joshua to completely destroy all the people as an offering to the Lord. So he left no one alive in those places.
41. Joshua captured all the cities from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza. And he captured all the cities from Goshen to Gibeon.
42. He captured all these cities and their kings on one trip. He did it because the Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for Israel.
43. Then Joshua and all the Israelites returned to their camp at Gilgal.