Question XVI. How long a time did Joshua take to accomplish these wars, and destroy the Enakim?

It is answered (v. 18): “For a long time Joshua warred against these kings.” But how great this time was, will be said in the following chapter (q. 3). Here, indeed, from this v. 18 up to the end of this chapter, a certain summary and recapitulation of those [things] is set up which Joshua did, both in the wars and after the wars; and another recapitulation is again subjoined in the following chapter. For the [things] which are here narrated about the slain “Enakim” (v. 21) happened indeed, as the text says, “at that time” — but as to a certain beginning, as will be said afterward, and [in] Judg. 1. And the [things] which, besides, are narrated about the partition of the land (v. 23, and the following chapter, v. 8) will afterward be explained more fully from ch. 13.