Joshua 13

Land Still to Be Conquered

1 Now Joshua a was old, advanced in years. And the LORD said to him: "You are old, advanced in years, and there remains very much land yet to be possessed. 2 b "This is the land that yet remains: c all the territory of the Philistines and all d that of the Geshurites, 3 e "from Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward (which is counted as Canaanite); the f five lords of the Philistines - the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also g the Avites; 4 "from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians h as far as Aphek, to the border of i the Amorites; 5 "the land of j the 1 Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, k from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath; 6 "all the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon as far as l the 2 Brook Misrephoth, and all the Sidonians - them m I will drive out from before the children of Israel; only n divide 3 it by lot to Israel as an inheritance, as I have commanded you. 7 "Now therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh."

The Inheritance East of the Jordan

8 With the other half-tribe the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, o which Moses had given them, p beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD had given them: 9 from Aroer which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and the town that is in the midst of the ravine, q and all the plain of Medeba as far as Dibon; 10 r all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the children of Ammon; 11 s Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salcah; 12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei, who remained of t the remnant of the giants; u for Moses had 4 defeated and 5 cast out these. 13 Nevertheless the children of Israel v did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maachathites, but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.

14 w Only to the tribe of Levi he had given 6 no inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, x as He said to them.

15 y And Moses had given to the tribe of the children of Reuben an inheritance according to their families. 16 Their territory was z from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, a and the city that is in the midst of the ravine, b and all the plain by Medeba; 17 c Heshbon and all its cities that are in the plain: Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, 18 d Jahaza, Kedemoth, Mephaath, 19 e Kirjathaim, f Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the mountain of the valley, 20 Beth Peor, g the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth - 21 h all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, i whom Moses had struck j with the princes of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who were princes of Sihon dwelling in the country. 22 The children of Israel also killed with the sword k Balaam the son of Beor, the 7 soothsayer, among those who were killed by them. 23 And 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 their villages.

24 l Moses also had given an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad according to their families. 25 m Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, n and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, which is before o Rabbah, 26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir, 27 and in the valley p Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, q Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as its border, as far as the edge r of the 8 Sea of Chinnereth, on the other side of the Jordan eastward. 28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and their villages.

29 s Moses also had given an inheritance to half the tribe of Manasseh; it was for half the tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families: 30 Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and t all the towns of Jair which are in Bashan, sixty cities; 31 half of Gilead, and u Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the v children of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Machir according to their families.

32 These are the areas which Moses had 9 distributed as an inheritance in the plains of Moab on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward. 33 w But to the tribe of Levi Moses had given no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, x as He had said to them.

  1. Cross References
    Joshua 14:10
    And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.
    Joshua 23:1
    Now it came to pass, a long time after the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua was old, advanced in age.
    Joshua 23:2
    And Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them: "I am old, advanced in age.
  2. Cross References
    Judges 3:1 - 3
    Now these are the nations which the LORD left, that He might test Israel by them, that is, all who had not known any of the wars in Canaan
  3. Cross References
    Joel 3:4
    Indeed, what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? Will you retaliate against Me? But if you retaliate against Me, Swiftly and speedily I will return your retaliation upon your own head.
  4. Cross References
    Joshua 13:13
    Nevertheless the children of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maachathites, but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
    2 Samuel 3:3
    His second, Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite; the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur.
  5. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 13:5
    So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor in Egypt to as far as the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath Jearim.
    Jeremiah 2:18
    And now why take the road to Egypt, To drink the waters of Sihor? Or why take the road to Assyria, To drink the waters of the River?
  6. Cross References
    Judges 3:3
    Namely, five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who dwelt in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
  7. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:23
    And the Avim, who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza - the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place.)
  8. Cross References
    Joshua 12:18
    The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one.
    Joshua 19:30
    Also Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob were included: twenty-two cities with their villages.
    1 Samuel 4:1
    And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
    1 Kings 20:26
    So it was, in the spring of the year, that BenHadad mustered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
    1 Kings 20:30
    But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; then a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the men who were left. And BenHadad fled and went into the city, into an inner chamber.
  9. Cross References
    Judges 1:34
    And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountains, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley.
  10. Cross References
    1 Kings 5:18
    So Solomon's builders, Hiram's builders, and the Gebalites quarried them; and they prepared timber and stones to build the temple.
    Ezekiel 27:9
    Elders of Gebal and its wise men Were in you to caulk your seams; All the ships of the sea And their oarsmen were in you To market your merchandise.
  11. Cross References
    Joshua 12:7
    And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel conquered on this side of the Jordan, on the west, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon as far as Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, which Joshua gave to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions.
  12. Cross References
    Joshua 11:8
    And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them and chased them to Greater Sidon, to the Brook Misrephoth, and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until they left none of them remaining.
  13. Cross References
    Joshua 23:13
    Know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
    Judges 2:21
    I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died.
    Judges 2:23
    Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out immediately; nor did He deliver them into the hand of Joshua.
  14. Cross References
    Joshua 14:1
    These are the areas which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed as an inheritance to them.
    Joshua 14:2
    Their inheritance was by lot, as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
  15. Cross References
    Numbers 32:33
    So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country.
    Deuteronomy 3:12
    And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, and half the mountains of Gilead and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.
    Deuteronomy 3:13
    The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of the giants.
    Joshua 22:4
    And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brethren, as He promised them; now therefore, return and go to your tents and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
  16. Cross References
    Joshua 12:1 - 6
    These are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the eastern Jordan plain:
  17. Cross References
    Numbers 21:30
    "But we have shot at them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. Then we laid waste as far as Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba."
    Joshua 13:16
    Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plain by Medeba.
  18. Cross References
    Numbers 21:24
    Then Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the people of Ammon; for the border of the people of Ammon was fortified.
    Numbers 21:25
    So Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its villages.
  19. Cross References
    Numbers 32:1
    Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock.
    Joshua 12:5
    And reigned over Mount Hermon, over Salcah, over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and over half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
  20. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 3:11
    For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. ( Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.
    Joshua 12:4
    The other king was Og king of Bashan and his territory, who was of the remnant of the giants, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei.
  21. Cross References
    Numbers 21:24
    Then Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the people of Ammon; for the border of the people of Ammon was fortified.
    Numbers 21:34
    Then the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.
    Numbers 21:35
    So they defeated him, his sons, and all his people, until there was no survivor left him; and they took possession of his land.
  22. Cross References
    Joshua 13:11
    Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salcah.
  23. Cross References
    Numbers 18:20
    Then the LORD said to Aaron: "You shall have no...
    Numbers 18:23
    But the Levites shall perform the work of the t...
    Numbers 18:24
    "For the tithes of the children of Israel, whic...
    Deuteronomy 18:1
    The priests, the Levites - all the tribe of Lev...
    Joshua 14:3
    For Moses had given the inheritance of the two ...
    Joshua 14:4
    For the children of Joseph were two tribes: Man...
  24. Cross References
    Joshua 13:33
    But to the tribe of Levi Moses had given no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as He had said to them.
  25. Cross References
    Numbers 34:14
    For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.
    Joshua 13:15 - 23
    And Moses had given to the tribe of the children of Reuben an inheritance according to their families.
  26. Cross References
    Joshua 12:2
    One king was Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon and ruled half of Gilead, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, from the middle of that river, even as far as the River Jabbok, which is the border of the Ammonites.
  27. Cross References
    Numbers 21:28
    For fire went out from Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon; It consumed Ar of Moab, The lords of the heights of the Arnon.
  28. Cross References
    Numbers 21:30
    "But we have shot at them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. Then we laid waste as far as Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba."
    Joshua 13:9
    From Aroer which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and the town that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plain of Medeba as far as Dibon.
  29. Cross References
    Numbers 21:28
    For fire went out from Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon; It consumed Ar of Moab, The lords of the heights of the Arnon.
    Numbers 21:30
    "But we have shot at them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. Then we laid waste as far as Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba."
  30. Cross References
    Numbers 21:23
    But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. So Sihon gathered all his people together and went out against Israel in the wilderness, and he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.
    Judges 11:20
    But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So Sihon gathered all his people together, encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
    Isaiah 15:4
    Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out, Their voice shall be heard as far as Jahaz; Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab will cry out; His life will be burdensome to him.
    Jeremiah 48:34
    From the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh and to Jahaz They have uttered their voice, From Zoar to Horonaim, Like a three-year-old heifer; For the waters of Nimrim also shall be desolate.
  31. Cross References
    Numbers 32:37
    And the children of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kirjathaim.
    Jeremiah 48:1
    Against Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Woe to Nebo! For it is plundered, Kirjathaim is shamed and taken; The high stronghold is shamed and dismayed -
    Jeremiah 48:23
    On Kirjathaim and Beth Gamul and Beth Meon.
    Ezekiel 25:9
    Therefore, behold, I will clear the territory of Moab of cities, of the cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kirjathaim.
  32. Cross References
    Numbers 32:38
    Nebo and Baal Meon ( their names being changed ) and Shibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
  33. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 3:17
    The plain also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the east side of the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.
    Joshua 12:3
    And the eastern Jordan plain from the Sea of Chinneroth as far as the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), the road to Beth Jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
  34. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 3:10
    All the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
  35. Cross References
    Numbers 21:24
    Then Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the people of Ammon; for the border of the people of Ammon was fortified.
  36. Cross References
    Numbers 31:8
    They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed - Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.
  37. Cross References
    Numbers 22:5
    Then he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying: "Look, a people has come from Egypt. See, they cover the face of the earth, and are settling next to me!
    Numbers 31:8
    They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed - Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.
  38. Cross References
    Numbers 34:14
    For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.
    1 Chronicles 5:11
    And the children of Gad dwelt next to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salcah:
  39. Cross References
    Numbers 32:1
    Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock.
    Numbers 32:35
    Atroth and Shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah.
  40. Cross References
    Judges 11:13
    And the king of the people of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel took away my land when they came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore, restore those lands peaceably.
    Judges 11:15
    And said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: 'Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the people of Ammon.
  41. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 3:11
    For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. ( Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.
    2 Samuel 11:1
    It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
    2 Samuel 12:26
    Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the people of Ammon, and took the royal city.
  42. Cross References
    Numbers 32:36
    Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
  43. Cross References
    Genesis 33:17
    And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, built himself a house, and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
    1 Kings 7:46
    In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds, between Succoth and Zaretan.
  44. Cross References
    Numbers 34:11
    The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; the border shall go down and reach to the eastern side of the Sea of Chinnereth.
    Deuteronomy 3:17
    The plain also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the east side of the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.
  45. Cross References
    Numbers 34:14
    For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.
    1 Chronicles 5:23
    So the children of the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land. Their numbers increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, that is, to Senir, or Mount Hermon.
  46. Cross References
    Numbers 32:41
    Also Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its small towns, and called them Havoth Jair.
    1 Chronicles 2:23
    (Geshur and Syria took from them the towns of Jair, with Kenath and its towns - sixty towns.) All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
  47. Cross References
    Joshua 9:10
    And all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan - to Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
    Joshua 12:4
    The other king was Og king of Bashan and his territory, who was of the remnant of the giants, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei.
    Joshua 13:12
    All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants; for Moses had defeated and cast out these.
    1 Chronicles 6:71
    From the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh the sons of Gershon were given Golan in Bashan with its common-lands and Ashtaroth with its common-lands.
  48. Cross References
    Numbers 32:39
    And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
    Numbers 32:40
    So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwelt in it.
    Joshua 17:1
    There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph: namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war; therefore he was given Gilead and Bashan.
  49. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 18:1
    The priests, the Levites - all the tribe of Levi - shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His portion.
    Joshua 13:14
    Only to the tribe of Levi he had given no inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as He said to them.
    Joshua 18:7
    "But the Levites have no part among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance. And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them."
  50. Cross References
    Numbers 18:20
    Then the LORD said to Aaron: "You shall have no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
    Deuteronomy 10:9
    Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.)
    Deuteronomy 18:1
    The priests, the Levites - all the tribe of Levi - shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His portion.
    Deuteronomy 18:2
    Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as He said to them.
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