However, there shall be between you and it a distance of about 2,000 cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”

Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.

And Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish, and they camped by it and fought against it.

And Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Lachish to Eglon, and they camped by it and fought against it.

So the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.

for the Lord our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did these great signs in our sight and preserved us through all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.