Joshua 11:21

"And Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, and in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain. So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Jehovah spake unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest from war."

This note on the destruction of the giant Anakim is of interest because it was these very giants that discouraged the ten spies who brought back the evil report to Moses in the wilderness, but Joshua made a quick and final end of the vast majority of them, leaving only a few in the principal cities of the Philistines. Later in Jewish history, one of the descendants of this race, "Goliath of Gath" confronted David and was destroyed by him with a sling-shot to the forehead.

"The land had rest from war ..." (Joshua 11:23). This is true "in the sense that no more great pitched battles were required."[31] A long, long time was required to do the mopping up from this conquest; and the wearisome work "became the oft-neglected responsibility of the individual tribes."[32] Even when the individual tribes got around to "possessing their possessions," by driving out the Canaanites, they soon discovered the device of putting the conquered people to PAYING TRIBUTE instead of DESTROYING them as God had commanded. Joshua 17:13 has this: "When the children of Israel were waxed strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not utterly drive them out." Francis Schaeffer's comment on this is:

"The people did NOT go on and do what God told them to do for two reasons: (1) They wanted peace at any price; and (2) they wanted wealth. They were practical materialists. For the sake of ease and money, they did NOT go forward and do what God told them to do. Tribute! Tribute! Tribute! They demanded and let the people stay in the land ... Does that sound up to date?"[33]