The whole land, synecdochically, i.e. the greatest and the best part of it, for some parts and places are expressly excepted in the following history. From war; from actual war; so far that they could now quietly survey, and distribute, and possess the land.
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Joshua 11:23
23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.