7 Turn and set out on YOUR way and go into the mountainous region of the Amʹor·ites+ and to all their neighbors in the Arʹa·bah,*+ the mountainous region+ and the She·pheʹlah* and the Negʹeb*+ and the seacoast,+ the land of the Caʹnaan·ites,+ and Lebʹa·non,+ up to the great river, the river Eu·phraʹtes.+

9 And it came about that as soon as all the kings+ who were on the side of the Jordan in the mountainous region and in the She·pheʹlah* and along the whole coast of the Great Sea+ and* in front of Lebʹa·non,+ the Hitʹtites+ and the Amʹor·ites, the Caʹnaan·ites,+ the Perʹiz·zites,+ the Hiʹvites and the Jebʹu·sites,+ heard of it,

10 Further, he built towers+ in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns (for there was a great deal of livestock that became his), and also in the She·pheʹlah+ and on the tableland. There were farmers and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carʹmel, for a lover of agriculture he proved to be.