Joshua 13
1 Joshua was now old, advanced in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old, advanced in years, and much land remains to be taken.
2 This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all the Geshurites;
3 from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, to the border of Ekron in the north, which is counted as Canaanite territory: the five rulers of the Philistines—the Gazites, Ashdodites, Ashkelonites, Gittites, and Ekronites—and the Avites;
4 to the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah, which belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad at the foot of Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
6 I will drive out from before the Israelites all the inhabitants of the hill country, from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians. Only allot it to Israel by lot as an inheritance, as I commanded you.
7 Now divide this land as an inheritance among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”
8 Along with them, the Reubenites and Gadites received the inheritance Moses had given them east of the Jordan, just as Moses, the servant of the LORD, had given it to them.
9 It extended from Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon gorge, and the town in the middle of the gorge, across the whole plateau from Medeba to Dibon;
10 and all the towns of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, as far as the border of the Ammonites;
11 and Gilead, the territory of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, all Mount Hermon and all Bashan, as far as Salecah;
12 the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who ruled in Ashtaroth and Edrei. He was the last of the remnant of the Rephaim. Moses defeated them and drove them out.
13 But the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. Geshur and Maacah have lived among Israel to this day.
14 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the offerings made by fire to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as he told them.
15 Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the Reubenites according to their clans.
16 Their territory extended from Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon gorge, and the town in the middle of the gorge, across the whole plateau by Medeba;
17 Heshbon and all its towns on the plateau: Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,
18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill in the valley,
20 Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth-jeshimoth,
21 and all the towns of the plateau, and the whole kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon. Moses defeated him and the Midianite chiefs—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—princes of Sihon who lived in the land.
22 The Israelites also killed Balaam son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword, among those they killed.
23 The border of the Reubenites was the Jordan and its banks. This was the inheritance of the Reubenites according to their clans: the towns and their surrounding villages.
24 Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the Gadites, according to their clans.
25 Their territory included Jazer, all the towns of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, as far as Aroer, opposite Rabbah;
26 and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Lo-debar;
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 and its banks, as far as the end of the Sea of Kinnereth, east of the Jordan.
28 This was the inheritance of the Gadites according to their clans: the towns and their surrounding villages.
29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It went to the half-tribe of the descendants of Manasseh according to their clans.
30 Their territory extended from Mahanaim: all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the settlements of Jair in Bashan, sixty towns;
31 and half of Gilead, with Ashtaroth and Edrei, towns of Og's kingdom in Bashan, went to the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh—to half of Machir's descendants according to their clans.
32 These are the inheritances Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, east of the Jordan, across from Jericho.
33 But Moses gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi; the LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he told them.
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