Joshua Chapter 13 Back Next{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.
{13:2} "This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the
Geshurites;
{13:3} from the Shihor, which is before
Egypt, even to the border of
Ekron northward, which is counted as
Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the
Ashdodites, the
Ashkelonites, the
Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the
Avvim,
{13:4} on the south; all the land of the
Canaanites, and
Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to
Aphek, to the border of the
Amorites;
{13:5} and the land of the
Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from
Baal Gad under
Mount Hermon to the entrance of
Hamath;
{13:6} all the inhabitants of the
hill country from Lebanon to
Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of
Israel: only allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
{13:7} Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of
Manasseh."
{13:8} 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:
{13:9} 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;
{13:10} and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in
Heshbon, to the border of the children of
Ammon;
{13:11} and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all
Bashan to Salecah;
{13:12} all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in
Ashtaroth and in
Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.
{13:13} Nevertheless the children of Israel didn't drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and
Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.
{13:14} 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.
{13:15} Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
{13:16} 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;
{13:17} Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon,
Bamoth Baal,
Beth Baal Meon,
{13:18}
Jahaz,
Kedemoth,
Mephaath,
{13:19}
Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,
{13:20}
Beth Peor, the slopes of
Pisgah,
Beth Jeshimoth,
{13:21} 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.
{13:22} The children of Israel alse killed
Balaam also the son of
Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.
{13:23} 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.
{13:24} Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.
{13:25} Their border was
Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to
Aroer that is before Rabbah;
{13:26} and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and
Betonim; and from
Mahanaim to the border of
Debir;
{13:27} 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.
{13:28} This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and its villages.
{13:29} Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.
{13:30} Their border 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.
{13:31} Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the 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.
{13:32} These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at
Jericho, eastward.
{13:33} But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. Yahweh, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.
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