Joshua 13:1–13

Land That Remains to Be Possessed

¹Now ^aJoshua was old, advanced in years, and Yahweh said to him, “You are old, advanced in years, and very much of the land remains to be possessed.

²“This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the ^aGeshurites;

³from the Shihor which is ¹east of Egypt, even as far as the border of Ekron to the north (it is counted as Canaanite); the ^afive lords of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the Avvite

⁴¹to the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, as far as ^aAphek, to the border of the ^bAmorite;

⁵and the land of the ^aGebalite, and all of Lebanon, to the east toward the sunrise, ^bfrom Baal-gad below Mount Hermon as far as ¹Lebo-hamath.

⁶“All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon as far as ^aMisrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians, I will dispossess them from before the sons of Israel; ^bonly allot it to Israel for an inheritance as I have commanded you.

⁷“So now, apportion this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

The Inheritance East of the Jordan

⁸With ¹the other half-tribe, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance which Moses gave them ^abeyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave to them;

⁹from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba, as far as Dibon;

¹⁰and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;

¹¹and ^aGilead, and the ¹territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah;

¹²all the kingdom of ^aOg in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone remained of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses ^bstruck them and dispossessed them.

¹³But the sons of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites or the Maacathites; so Geshur and Maacath live among Israel until this day.