John Gill Commentary Joshua 11:16

"So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah, and the hill-country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;" — Joshua 11:16 (ASV)

So Joshua took all that land
The whole land of Canaan, described as follows, both as to the southern and northern parts of it:

the hills ;
the hill country of Judea, of which see (Luke 1:39Luke 1:65) ;

and all the south country ;
where lived the five kings; and those of other places, the account of the taking of which we have in the preceding chapter, (Joshua 10:40) ;

and all the land of Goshen ;
see (Joshua 10:41) ;

and the valley, and the plain ;
the low places and campaign fields which lay between the hills and mountains; particularly all the plain and campaign country near Eleutheropolis, towards the north and west, Jerom says, in his day, was called "Sephela", or "the vale" ^F1 :

and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same ;
by which may be meant Jerusalem, situated on a mountain, and is so called, (Ezekiel 17:23) (Ezekiel 20:40) ; and its valley may be the valley of Hinnom or of Jehoshaphat, as they were after called, which were near it: some think the hill of Samaria or the mountains about that are meant.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F1: De loc. Heb. fol. 94. M.