Discovery BoxJoshua 10:40 
Context10:40 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
Context11:16 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
Context15:1 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
Context15:19 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
Context19:8 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
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.”
