17 When Moses was sending them to spy out the land of Caʹnaan, he proceeded to say to them: “Go up here into the Negʹeb,*+ and YOU must go up into the mountainous region.+

7 Turn and set out on YOUR way and go into the mountainous region of the Amʹor·ites+ and to all their neighbors in the Arʹa·bah,*+ the mountainous region+ and the She·pheʹlah* and the Negʹeb*+ and the seacoast,+ the land of the Caʹnaan·ites,+ and Lebʹa·non,+ up to the great river, the river Eu·phraʹtes.+

40 And Joshua proceeded to strike all the land of the mountainous region+ and the Negʹeb+ and the She·pheʹlah*+ and the slopes+ and all their kings. He did not let a survivor remain, and everything that breathed*+ he devoted to destruction,+ just as Jehovah the God of Israel had commanded.+

8 in the mountainous region and in the She·pheʹlah and in the Arʹa·bah and on the slopes and in the wilderness and in the Negʹeb+—the Hitʹtites, the Amʹor·ites+ and the Caʹnaan·ites, the Perʹiz·zites, the Hiʹvites and the Jebʹu·sites:+