Joshua 10:40

10:40 Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, ¹  the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua 11:16

A Summary of Israel’s Victories

11:16 Joshua conquered the whole land, ²  including the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the lowlands, ³  the Arabah, the hill country of Israel and its lowlands,

Joshua 15:1

15:1 The land allotted to the tribe of Judah by its clans reached to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin in the Negev far to the south. ⁴ 

Joshua 15:19

15:19 She answered, “Please give me a special present. ⁵  Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water. So he gave her both upper and lower springs.

Joshua 19:8

19:8 as well as all the towns around these cities as far as Baalath Beer (Ramah of the Negev). This was the land assigned to the tribe of Simeon by its clans. ⁶ 

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¹ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

² tn Heb “Joshua took all this land.”

³ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

⁴ tn Heb “The lot was to the tribe of the sons of Judah by their clans to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin toward the south, southward.”

⁵ tn Elsewhere this Hebrew word (בְּרָכָה, bÿrakhah) is often translated “blessing,” but here it refers to a gift (as in Gen 33:11; 1 Sam 25:27; 30:26; and 2 Kgs 5:15).

⁶ tn Heb “this was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon.”