5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.

Not Because of Righteousness

1 “Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

20 When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

12 So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for ^tyou heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and ^uI shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”