Joshua 13
The Land Yet to Be
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Now Joshua was old and stricken in
years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land
to be possessed.
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This is the land that yet
remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all
Gesh'uri,
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from Sihor, which is before Egypt,
even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to
the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Ga'zathites, and
the Ash'dothites, the Esh'kalonites, the Gittites, and the
Ek'ronites; also the Avites:
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from the south, all the land of the
Canaanites, and Me-a'rah that is beside the Sido'nians, unto
Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
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and the land of the Giblites, and all
Lebanon toward the sunrising, from Ba'al-gad under mount Hermon unto
the entering into Hamath.
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All the inhabitants of the hill country
from Lebanon unto Mis'rephoth-ma'im, and all the Sido'nians,
them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only
divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, Num.
33.54 as I have commanded thee.
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Now therefore divide this land for an
inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of
Manas'seh,
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with whom the Reubenites and the Gadites
have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond
Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them; Num. 32.33 · Deut. 3.12
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from Aro'er, that is upon the bank
of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the
river, and all the plain of Me'deba unto Dibon;
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and all the cities of Sihon king of the
Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children
of Ammon;
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and Gil'e-ad, and the border of the
Gesh'urites and Ma-ach'athites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan
unto Salcah;
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all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which
reigned in Ash'taroth and in Ed're-i, who remained of the remnant of
the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
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Nevertheless the children of Israel
expelled not the Gesh'urites, nor the Ma-ach'athites: but the
Gesh'urites and the Ma-ach'athites dwell among the Israelites until
this day.
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The Inheritances Given
by Moses |
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Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave
none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said
unto them. Deut. 18.1
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And Moses gave unto the tribe of the
children of Reuben inheritance according to their
families.
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And their coast was from Aro'er, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by
Me'deba;
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Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Ba'moth-ba'al, and
Beth-ba'al-me'on,
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and Jaha'za, and Kede'moth, and
Meph'a-ath,
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and Kirjatha'im, and Sibmah, and
Za'reth-sha'har in the mount of the valley,
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and Beth-pe'or, and Ash'doth-pis'gah, and
Beth-jesh'imoth,
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and all the cities of the plain, and all
the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon,
whom Moses smote with the princes of Mid'i-an, Evi, and Rekem, and
Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling
in the country.
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Ba'laam also the son of Be'or, the
soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among
them that were slain by them.
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And the border of the children of Reuben
was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the
inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the
cities and the villages thereof.
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And Moses gave inheritance unto
the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to
their families.
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And their coast was Jazer, and all the
cities of Gil'e-ad, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto
Aro'er that is before Rabbah;
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and from Heshbon unto Ra'math-miz'peh,
and Beto'nim; and from Mahana'im unto the border of Debir;
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and in the valley, Beth-a'ram, and
Beth-nim'rah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of
Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chin'nereth on the other side Jordan
eastward.
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This is the inheritance of the
children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their
villages.
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And Moses gave inheritance unto
the half tribe of Manas'seh: and this was the
possession of the half tribe of the children of Manas'seh by
their families.
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And their coast was from Mahana'im, all
Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of
Ja'ir, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
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and half Gil'e-ad, and Ash'taroth, and
Ed're-i, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were
pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manas'seh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their
families.
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These are the countries which
Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the
other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
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But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them. Num. 18.20 · Deut. 18.2
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