Joshua
Chapter Thirteen
1 ¶ Now Joshua was
old, advanced in years. And the LORD said to him: "You are old, advanced
in years, and there remains very much land yet to be possessed.
2 "This is the land that yet remains: all the territory of the Philistines
and all that of the Geshurites,
3 "from Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward
(which is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the Philistines-the Gazites,
the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the
Avites;
4 "from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs
to the Sidonians as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
5 "the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from
Baal Gad below Mount Hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath;
6 "all the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon as far as the Brook
Misrephoth, and all the Sidonians-them I will drive out from before the children
of Israel; only divide it by lot to Israel as an inheritance, as I have commanded
you.
7 ¶ "Now therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine
tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh."
8 With the other half tribe the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance,
which Moses had given them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant
of the LORD had given them:
9 from Aroer which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and the town that is in
the midst of the ravine, and all the plain of Medeba as far as Dibon;
10 all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as
far as the border of the children of Ammon;
11 Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, all Mount Hermon,
and all Bashan as far as Salcah;
12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei, who
remained of the remnant of the giants; for Moses had defeated and cast out these.
13 Nevertheless the children of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the
Maachathites, but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites
until this day.
14 Only to the tribe of Levi he had given no inheritance; the sacrifices of
the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as He said to them.
15 And Moses had given to the tribe of the children of Reuben an inheritance
according to their families.
16 Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon,
and the city that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plain by Medeba;
17 Heshbon and all its cities that are in the plain: Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth
Baal Meon,
18 Jahaza, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
19 Kirjathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the mountain of the valley,
20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth-
21 all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites,
who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses had struck with the princes of Midian: Evi,
Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who were princes of Sihon dwelling in the country.
22 The children of Israel also killed with the sword Balaam the son of Beor,
the soothsayer, among those who were killed by them.
23 And the border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This
was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the
cities and their villages.
24 Moses also had given an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the children
of Gad according to their families.
25 Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land
of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, which is before Rabbah,
26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border
of Debir,
27 and in the valley Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest
of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as its border, as far
as the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth, on the other side of the Jordan eastward.
28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families,
the cities and their villages.
29 Moses also had given an inheritance to half the tribe of Manasseh; it was
for half the tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families:
30 Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king
of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair which are in Bashan, sixty cities;
31 half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan,
were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the children
of Machir according to their families.
32 These are the areas which Moses had distributed as an inheritance in the
plains of Moab on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward.
33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses had given no inheritance; the LORD God of
Israel was their inheritance, as He had said to them.
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