Land Still to Be Taken

13 When Joshua had grown old,e the Lord said to him, “You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over.

2 “This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistinesf and Geshurites,g 3 from the Shihor Riverh on the east of Egypt to the territory of Ekroni on the north, all of it counted as Canaanite though held by the five Philistine rulersj in Gaza, Ashdod,k Ashkelon,l Gath and Ekron; the territory of the Avvitesm 4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, from Arah of the Sidonians as far as Aphekn and the border of the Amorites;o 5 the area of Byblos;p and all Lebanonq to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermonr to Lebo Hamath.s

6 “As for all the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim,t that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them outu before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have instructed you,v 7 and divide it as an inheritancew among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.”