Joshua 13:1–13

Unconquered Lands

13Joshua was now old, getting on in years, ^uand the Lord said to him, “You have become old, getting on in years, but a great deal of the land remains to be possessed. ^v2This is the land that remains:

All the districts of the Philistines and the Geshurites: ³from the Shihor east of Egypt to the border of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as the Avvites ⁴in the south; all the land of the Canaanites: from Arah of the Sidonians to Aphek and as far as the border of the Amorites; ⁵the land of the Gebalites; ^wand all Lebanon east from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath ^xy— ⁶all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, ^zall the Sidonians.

I will drive them out before the Israelites, only distribute the land as an inheritance for Israel, as I have commanded you. ⁷Therefore, divide this land as 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, the Reubenites and Gadites had received the inheritance Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the Lord’s servant had given them: ^a

⁹From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, ^ball the Medeba plateau as far as Dibon, ¹⁰and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the Ammonites; ¹¹also Gilead ^cand the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah— ¹²the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei; he was one of the remaining Rephaim.

Moses struck them down and drove them out, ^d13but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites and Maacathites. ^eSo Geshur and Maacath live in Israel to this day. ^f