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.
"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: