The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Joshua 13
1 Now Joshua was old and well advanced
in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old
and advanced in years, and there remains
yet very much land to be possessed.
2 “This is the land that still remains: all
the regions of the Philistines, and all the
Geshurites;
3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt,
even to the border of Ekron northward,
which is counted as Canaanite; the five
lords ofthe Philistines; the Gazites, and the
Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites,
and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
4 on the south; all the land ofthe Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all
Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal
Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance
of Hamath;
6 all the inhabitants of the hill country
from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even
all the Sidonians. I will drive them out
from before the children of Israel. Just
allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I
have commanded you.
7 Now therefore divide this land for an
inheritance to the nine tribes and the halftribe of Manasseh.”
8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which
Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:
9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the
valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in
the middle of the valley, and all the plain
of Medeba to Dibon;
10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the
Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the
border of the children of Ammon;
11 and Gilead, and the border of the
Geshurites andMaacathites, andallMount
Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who
reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (who
was left of the remnant of the Rephaim);
for Moses attacked these, and drove them
out.
13 Nevertheless the children of Israel
didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the
Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live
within Israel to this day.
14 Only he gave no inheritance to the
tribe of Levi. The offerings of Yahweh,
the God of Israel, made by fire are his
inheritance, as he spoke to him.
15 Moses gave to the tribe of the children
of Reuben according to their families.
16 Their border was from Aroer, that is
on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and
the city that is in the middle of the valley,
and all the plain by Medeba;
17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in
the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal
Meon,
18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in
the mount of the valley,
20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, 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
struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi,
Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of
Sihon, who lived in the land.
22 The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with
the sword, among the rest of their slain.
23 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
its villages.
24 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the
children of Gad, according to their families.
25 Their border was Jazer, and all the
cities of Gilead, and half the land of the
children of Ammon, to Aroer that is near
Rabbah;
26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh,
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,
the Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part of
the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan
eastward.
28 This is the inheritance of the children
of Gad according to their families, the
cities and its villages.
29 Moses gave an inheritance to the halftribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe
of the children of Manasseh according to
their families.
30 Their border was from Mahanaim,
all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of
Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which
are in Bashan, sixty cities.
31 Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the
cities ofthe kingdom of Og in Bashan, were
for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of
Machir according to their families.
32 These are the inheritances which
Moses distributed in the plains of Moab,
beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
33 But Moses gave no inheritance to the
tribe of Levi. Yahweh, the God of Israel, is
their inheritance, as he spoke to them.