Now it happened that while Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and much to his amazement, he saw a man standing in front of him, holding a drawn sword in his hand! Joshua approached him and asked him, "Are you one of us, or are you with our enemies?"

The Israelis also killed Beor's son Balaam, the occult practitioner, executing him with a sword as one of those killed.

The third lottery went to the tribe of Zebulun according to its families. The boundary of its inheritance extended to Sarid,

From Sarid it proceeded back eastward, creating a sunrise boundary at Chisloth-tabor, and proceeded from there to Daberath, then to Japhia,

"Then I sent hornets ahead of you to drive out two kings of the Amorites before you without your using either sword or bow.