Joshua 13:1–30

Land Still to Be Conquered

13Now Joshua ^twas old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land ^uto possess. ^2vThis is the land that yet remains: all the ^wregions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites ³(from the ^xShihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; ^ythere are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of ^zthe Avvim, ⁴in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of ^athe Amorites, ⁵and the land of the ^bGebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from ^cBaal-gad below Mount Hermon to ^dLebo-hamath, ⁶all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to ^eMisrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive ^fthem out from before the people of Israel. Only ^gallot the land to Israel ^hfor an inheritance, as I have commanded you. ⁷Now therefore ⁱdivide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

The Inheritance East of the Jordan

⁸With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh¹ the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, ^jwhich Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them: ^9kfrom Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and ^lall the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon; ^10mand all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites; ¹¹and Gilead, and the ⁿregion of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and ⁿall Bashan to Salecah; ¹²ⁿall the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of ⁿthe remnant of the Rephaim); ^othese Moses had struck and driven out. ^13pYet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.

^14qTo the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.

¹⁵And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans. ¹⁶So their territory was from Aroer, ^rwhich is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by ^sMedeba; ¹⁷with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; ^sDibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, ^18tand Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, ¹⁹and ^uKiriathaim, and ^uSibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, ²⁰and ^vBeth-peor, and ^wthe slopes of Pisgah, and ^wBeth-jeshimoth, ²¹that is, ^xall the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, ^ywhom Moses defeated with ^zthe leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. ^22zBalaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain. ²³And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.

²⁴Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans. ^25aTheir territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of ^bRabbah, ²⁶and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from ^cMahanaim to the territory of Debir,^{2 27}and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, ^dSuccoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of ^eChinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan. ²⁸This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.

²⁹And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans. ³⁰Their region extended from ^fMahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all ^gthe towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,