Joshua 13

Remaining Land to Be Conquered

1 Now Joshua *Josh. 14:10; 23:1, 2was 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 *Judg. 3:1–3This is the land that yet remains: *Joel 3:4all the territory of the Philistines and all *Josh. 13:13; 2 Sam. 3:3thatof the Geshurites, 3 *1 Chr. 13:5; Jer. 2:18from Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward (which is counted as Canaanite); the *Judg. 3:3five lords of the Philistines—the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also *Deut. 2:23the Avites; 4 from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians *Josh. 12:18; 19:30; 1 Sam. 4:1; 1 Kin. 20:26, 30as far as Aphek, to the border of *Judg. 1:34the Amorites; 5 the land of *1 Kin. 5:18; Ezek. 27:9the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, *Josh. 12:7from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath; 6 all the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon as far as *Josh. 11:8the Brook Misrephoth, and all the Sidonians—them *Josh. 23:13; Judg. 2:21, 23I will drive out from before the children of Israel; only *Josh. 14:1, 2divide 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."

The Land Divided East of the Jordan

8 With the other half-tribe the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, *Num. 32:33; Deut. 3:12, 13; Josh. 22:4which Moses had given them, *Josh. 12:1–6beyond 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, *Num. 21:30; Josh. 13:16and all the plain of Medeba as far as Dibon; 10 *Num. 21:24, 25all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the children of Ammon; 11 *Num. 32:1; Josh. 12:5Gilead, 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 *Deut. 3:11; Josh. 12:4the remnant of the giants; *Num. 21:24, 34, 35for Moses had defeated and cast out these.

13 Nevertheless the children of Israel *Josh. 13:11did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maachathites, but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.

14 *Num. 18:20, 23, 24; Deut. 18:1; Josh. 14:3, 4Only to the tribe of Levi he had given no inheritance; the sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, *Josh. 13:33as He said to them.

The Land of Reuben

15 *Num. 34:14; Josh. 13:15–23And Moses had given to the tribe of the children of Reuben aninheritance according to their families. 16 Their territory was *Josh. 12:2from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, *Num. 21:28and the city that is in the midst of the ravine, *Num. 21:30; Josh. 13:9and all the plain by Medeba; 17 *Num. 21:28, 30Heshbon and all its cities that are in the plain: Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, 18 *Num. 21:23; Judg. 11:20; Is. 15:4; Jer. 48:34Jahaza, Kedemoth, Mephaath, 19 *Num. 32:37; Jer. 48:1, 23; Ezek. 25:9Kirjathaim, *Num. 32:38Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the mountain of the valley, 20 Beth Peor, *Deut. 3:17; Josh. 12:3the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth— 21 *Deut. 3:10all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, *Num. 21:24whom Moses had struck *Num. 31:8with 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 *Num. 22:5; 31:8Balaam 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.

The Land of Gad

24 *Num. 34:14; 1 Chr. 5:11Moses also had given aninheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad according to their families. 25 *Num. 32:1, 35Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, *Judg. 11:13, 15and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, which is before *Deut. 3:11; 2 Sam. 11:1; 12:26Rabbah, 26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir, 27 and in the valley *Num. 32:36Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, *Gen. 33:17; 1 Kin. 7:46Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as its border, as far as the edge *Num. 34:11; Deut. 3:17of 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.

Half the Tribe of Manasseh (East)

29 *Num. 34:14; 1 Chr. 5:23Moses also had given aninheritance 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 *Num. 32:41; 1 Chr. 2:23all the towns of Jair which are in Bashan, sixty cities; 31 half of Gilead, and *Josh. 9:10; 12:4; 13:12; 1 Chr. 6:71Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the *Num. 32:39, 40; Josh. 17:1children of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Machir according to their families.

32 These aretheareas which Moses had distributed as an inheritance in the plains of Moab on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward. 33 *Deut. 18:1; Josh. 13:14; 18:7But to the tribe of Levi Moses had given no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, *Num. 18:20; Deut. 10:9; 18:1, 2as He had said to them.