1. Joshua 9:1 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Where did these kings live?

Joshua 9:1 (ESV)

1 As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,

The list of kings opposing Israel is exactly the same as the list specified in Deuteronomy 20:1. The geographical description is there to show that these kings were from all the parts of the land of Canaan: the hill country, the central highlands, the western foothills and the entire coast as far as Lebanon.1