Joshua 11:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. Joshua took the whole land. 'The battle of the lake of Merom was to the north what the battle of Beth-heron had been to the south: more briefly told, less complete in its consequences, but still the decisive conflict by which the whole northern region of Canaan fell into the hands of Israel' (Stanley, 'Sinai and Palestine, p. 385).