{"id":259,"date":"2020-10-30T06:33:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T10:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2024-09-27T16:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T20:56:40","slug":"the-conquest-of-canaan-the-southern-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/10\/30\/the-conquest-of-canaan-the-southern-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conquest of Canaan: The Southern Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joshua 9-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As news spread that mighty Jericho had fallen to the Israelites and that their intention was to conquer all of Canaan, fear grew among the Canaanites. To avoid being wiped out by the Israelites, the people of Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim deceived the Israelites into thinking they lived far away, and they made a peace treaty with them (Joshua 9). Soon after this, several Amorite cities in southern Canaan joined together to attack the Gibeonites, so the Gibeonites appealed to the Israelites for help. Joshua led the Israelites on an all night march from Gilgal to Gibeon and defeated the Amorites. The Israelites continued to pursue the Amorites and eventually captured the cities of Makkedah, Libnah, Lachish, Eglon, and Debir (Joshua 10), and likely Jarmuth and Hebron as well (see Joshua 10:23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ConquestSouthernCampaign-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ConquestSouthernCampaign-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ConquestSouthernCampaign-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ConquestSouthernCampaign-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ConquestSouthernCampaign-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ConquestSouthernCampaign-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ConquestSouthernCampaign-1568x1176.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2913\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/images\/hi-res\/ConquestSouthernCampaign_high.jpg\">download hi-res file<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#x1f50d;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/timeline?date=-1400\">see in TimeGlider<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"photolauncher\" style=\"display:none;\" mapbasename=\"ConquestSouthernCampaign\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua 9-10 As news spread that mighty Jericho had fallen to the Israelites and that their intention was to conquer all of Canaan, fear grew among the Canaanites. To avoid being wiped out by the Israelites, the people of Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim deceived the Israelites into thinking they lived far away, and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battles","category-exodusandconquestperiod","category-oldtestament","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbsXLW-4b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}