Joshua 13–14

13Now Joshua ^awas old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land ^†to be possessed. ^2bThis is the land that yet remaineth: all ^cthe borders of the Philistines, and all ^dGeshuri, ³From ^eSihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: ^ffive lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the ^gEkronites; also ^hthe Avites: ⁴From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and ^||Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, ⁱunto Aphek, to the borders of ^jthe Amorites: ⁵And the land of ^kthe Giblites, and ^||all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, ^lfrom Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto ^mthe entering into Hamath. ⁶All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto ⁿMisrephoth-maim, and all the Sidonians, ^othem will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only ^pdivide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee. ⁷Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh, ⁸With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, ^qwhich Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them; ^9rFrom Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all ^sthe plain of ^tMedeba unto ^tDibon; ¹⁰And ^uall the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon; ¹¹And ^wGilead, and the border of ^xthe Geshurites and Maachathites, and all ^ymount Hermon, and all Bashan unto ^wSalcah; ¹²All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in ^zAshtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of ^athe remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out. ¹³Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not ^bthe Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day. ^14cOnly unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, ^das he said unto them.

¹⁵And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families. ¹⁶And their coast was ^efrom Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all ^ethe plain by ^eMedeba; ¹⁷Heshbon, and all her cities that are in ^ethe plain; ^eDibon, and ^||Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, ¹⁸And ^fJahazah, and ^gKedemoth, and ^gMephaath, ¹⁹And ^hKirjathaim, and ⁱSibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount of the valley, ²⁰And ^kBeth-peor, and ^||Ashdoth-pisgah, and ^lBeth-jeshimoth, ²¹And ^mall the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, ⁿwhom Moses smote ^owith the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were ^pdukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country. ^22oBalaam also the son of Beor, the ^||soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them. ²³And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.

²⁴And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families. ²⁵And their coast was ^qJazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and ^rhalf the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before ^sRabbah; ²⁶And from Heshbon unto ^tRamath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from ^uMahanaim unto the border of ^wDebir; ²⁷And in the valley, ^xBeth-aram, and ^yBeth-nimrah, and ^zSuccoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of ^aChinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward. ²⁸This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.

²⁹And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families. ³⁰And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and ^ball the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities: ³¹And half Gilead, and ^cAshtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of ^dMachir by their families. ³²These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance ^ein the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward. ^33fBut unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, ^gas he said unto them.

14And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, ^awhich Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. ^2bBy lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. ^3cFor Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. ⁴For ^dthe children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their ^ecattle and for their substance. ^5fAs the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.

⁶Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^gKenezite said unto him, Thou knowest ^hthe thing that the Lord said unto Moses ⁱthe man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea. ⁷Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord ^jsent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. ⁸Nevertheless ^kmy brethren that went up with me ^kmade the heart of the people melt: but I wholly ^lfollowed the Lord my God. ⁹And Moses sware on that day, saying, ^mSurely the land ⁿwhereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast ^lwholly followed the Lord my God. ^10*And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, ^oas he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel ^†wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day ^pfourscore and five years old. ^11qAs yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both ^rto go out, and to come in. ¹²Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how ^sthe Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said. ¹³And Joshua ^tblessed him, and ^ugave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. ¹⁴Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he ^xwholly followed the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁵And ^ythe name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. ^zAnd the land had rest from war.