13:1 Now Joshua was old and advanced in years when the LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and a very large amount of the land remains to be possessed.
13:2 This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites;
13:3 from the Shihor which is ①east of Egypt, even as far as the border of Ekron to the north (it is counted as Canaanite); the five governors of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the Avvite
▷ ①Lit to the face of
13:4 ①to the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorite;
▷ ①Or from the Teman
13:5 and the land of the Gebalite, and all of Lebanon, toward the ①east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon as far as ②Lebo-hamath.
▷ ①Lit sunrise ②Or the entrance of Hamath
13:6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon as far as Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians, I will ①drive out from the sons of Israel; only allot it to Israel as an inheritance as I have commanded you.
▷ ①Or dispossess them from
13:7 Now therefore, apportion this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”
13:8 With ①the other half-tribe, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the LORD gave to them;
▷ ①Lit it, the
13:9 from 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;
13:10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;
13:11 and Gilead, and the ①territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah;
▷ ①Or border
13:12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses struck them and ①drove them out.
▷ ①Or dispossessed them
13:13 But the sons of Israel did not ①drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites; instead, Geshur and Maacath live among Israel to this day.
▷ ①Or dispossess
13:14 Only to the tribe of Levi he did not give an inheritance; the offerings by fire to the LORD, the God of Israel, are ①their inheritance, as He spoke to him.
▷ ①Lit his
13:15 So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.
13:16 Their ①territory was from 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 by Medeba;
▷ ①Or border
13:17 Heshbon and all its cities which are on the plain: Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,
13:18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
13:19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,
13:20 Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth-jeshimoth,
13:21 even all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the leaders of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the leaders of Sihon, who lived in the land.
13:22 The sons of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword among the rest of their dead.
13:23 The border of the sons of Reuben was the ①Jordan. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their villages.
▷ ①Lit Jordan and border
13:24 Moses also gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad according to their families.
13:25 Their territory was Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer which is opposite Rabbah;
13:26 and from Heshbon as far as Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far as the border of ①Debir;
▷ ①Or Lidebir
13:27 and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan ①as a border, as far as the lower end of the Sea of ②Chinnereth beyond the Jordan to the east.
▷ ①Lit and border ②I.e., Galilee
13:28 This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their families, the cities and their villages.
13:29 Moses also gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh; and it was for the half-tribe of the sons of Manasseh according to their families.
13:30 Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the ①towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;
▷ ①Lit tent villages
13:31 also half of Gilead, with Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir according to their families.
13:32 These are the territories which Moses apportioned as an inheritance in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho to the east.
13:33 But to the tribe of Levi, Moses did not give an inheritance; the LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as He had ①promised to them.
▷ ①Lit spoken to