Joshua 13
1JOSHUA was now far advanced in years, therefore the Lord said to Joshua, Thou art advanced in years, and there is much land left to be taken possession of.
2Now this is the land which is left—the borders of the Philistines, the Geserites, and the Chananites.
3The land from the desert which is before Egypt, to the borders of Akkaron, on the left of the Chananites, is given to the five satrapies of the Philistines: the Gazites and the Azotians, and the Askalonites, and the Getthites, and the Akkaronites, comprehending the Evaites.
4From Thaiman, throughout the whole land, lieth Chanaan before Gaza. And the Sidonians extend to Aphek, and to the borders of the Amorites.
5Now all the land of Galiath of the Philistines, and all Lebanon, from the rising of the sun—from Galgal, at the foot of mount Aermon, to the bay of Aimath—
6all the inhabitants of the hilly country, from Lebanon to Masereth-Memphomaim—all the Sidonians—them I will myself drive out from before Israel; but distribute thou it, by lot, to Israel, as I have commanded thee. Now therefore divide this land, for a possession among the nine tribes, and the half of the tribe of Manasses.
8Thou shalt give it from the Jordan to the great sea, at the setting of the sun: that great sea shall be your boundary. To the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, Moses hath given on the eastern border of the Jordan.
9Moses the servant of the Lord had given them from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, that city which is in the middle of the vale, and all Misor from Maidaban—
10all the cities of Seon, king of the Amorites, who reigned at Esebon, to the borders, of the children of Ammon;
11and Galaaditis, and the country of the Geserites, and the Machatites; all mount Aermon, and all Basanitis to Acha,
12all the kingdom of Og, in Basanitis, who reigned in Astaroth and Edrain, he was a remnant of the giants, and Moses smote him and destroyed him.
13Now the children of Israel had not destroyed the Geserites, nor the Machatite, who was a Chananite. And the king of Gesiri, and the Machatite, still dwelt among the Israelites.
14But to the tribe of Levi there was no possession given. The Lord, the God of Israel, is Himself their possession, as the Lord said to them.
15Now this was the distribution which Moses made to the children of Israel at Araboth-Moab, on the border of the Jordan, over against Jericho.— To the tribe of Reuben, according to their communities, Moses gave and these were their borders:
16from Aroer, which is in front of the vale of Arnon, including the city in the vale of Arnon, all the Misor to
17Esebon, and all the cities in Misor, namely Daibon, and Baimon-baal, and house of Meelboth,
18and Basan, and Bakedmoth, and Maiphaad,
19and Kariathaim, and Sebama, and Serada, and Sion on mount Enab,
20and Baithphogor, and Asedothphasga, and Baithaseinoth,
21even all the cities of Misor, and all the kingdom of Seon, king of the Amorites, whom Moses slew, and with him the leaders of Madiam, Evi, and Robok, and Sour, and Our, and Robe, the chief; at the rifling of Sion, when the Israelites slew the inhabitants of Sion, and in the route,
22Balaam son of Boer the prophet.
23These were the borders of Reuben, and Jordan was a boundary. This was the possession of the children of Reuben, according to their communities, and these were their cities and their sheepcots.
24And to the children of Gad, according to their communities, Moses gave,
25and these were their borders: Jazer, all the cities of Galaad, and the half of the land of Ammon, even to Araba, which is in front of Arad,
26and from Esebon to Araboth, over against Massepha, and Botanim, and Maan to the border of Daibon,
27and Enadom, and Othargai, and Bainthanabra, and Socchotha, and Saphan, and the residue of the kingdom of Seon, king of Esebon. And the Jordan is their boundary, to a part of the sea of Cheneroth, on the east side of the Jordan.
28This is the possession of the children of Gad, according to their communities, and according to their cities. According to their communities they can face their enemies; for their cities, and their sheepcots, were distributed according to their communities.
29And to the half of the tribe of Manasses, according to their communities, Moses gave,
30and these were their borders: from Maan, all the kingdom of Basan, even all the kingdom of Og, king of Basan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Basanitis, sixty cities,
31and the half of Galaad, and in Astaroth, and in Edrain, the cities of the kingdom of Og, in Basanitis. These he gave to the Machirites, the children of Manasses, to one half of the Machirites, the children of Manasses, according to their communities.
32These were they to whom Moses gave possessions on the east side of the Jordan,
33at Araboth-Moab, on the bank of the Jordan over against Jericho.