(34) And the seven kings of the Amorites assembled themselves together against them, to slay them, hiding themselves under the trees, and to take thoir cattle as a prey.

(7) Afterwards the pillar of fire, which accompanied them (for it went before them as a guide), conducted the Hebrews by night through an untrodden region, training and bracing them, by toils and hardships, to manliness and endurance, that after their experience of what appeared formidable difficulties, the benefits of the land, to which from the trackless desert he was conducting them, might become apparent. Furthermore, he put to flight and slew the hostile occupants of the land, falling upon them from a desert and rugged line of march (such was the excellence of his generalship). For the taking of the land of those hostile tribes was a work of skill and strategy.

(38) And then went forth the sons of Jacob, they and their servants, dividing themselves into companies on the four sides of the tower.

(30) And he reproached them because they had put the city to the sword ; l for he feared those who dwelt in the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

(38) And Levi and Dan and Asher went forth on the east side of the tower, and fifty (men) with them, and they slew the fighting men of Moab and Ammon.

(38) And Reuben and Issachar and Zebulon went forth on the north side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slew the fighting men of the Philistines.

(38) Eliezer xxxix. (towards end). Judah went forth in front, and Naphtali and Gad" with him and fifty servants with him on the south side of the tower, and they slew all they found before them, and not one individual of them escaped.

(37) And there came to them from Moab and from the children of Amnion, those who were hired, one thousand chosen men, and from Philistia, one thousand chosen men of war, and from Edom and from the Horites one thousand chosen fighting men, and from the Kittim mighty men of war. n. And they said unto their father : " Go forth with them and lead them, else we shall slay thee."