Joshua 13:1–7

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.”