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.”

Division of the Land East of the Jordan

8 The other half of Manasseh,a the Reubenites and the Gadites had received the inheritance that Moses had given them east of the Jordan, as he, the servant of the Lord, had assignedx it to them.y

9 It extended from Aroerz on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and included the whole plateaua of Medeba as far as Dibon,b 10 and all the towns of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon,c out to the border of the Ammonites.d 11 It also included Gilead,e the territory of the people of Geshur and Maakah, all of Mount Hermon and all Bashan as far as Salekahf—12 that is, the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan,g who had reigned in Ashtarothh and Edrei.i (He was the last of the Rephaites.j) Moses had defeated them and taken over their land.k 13 But the Israelites did not drive out the people of Geshurl and Maakah,m so they continue to live among the Israelites to this day.n