THE BOOK OF JOSHUA

 

Joshua Chapter 13

1 ¶ Now Joshua was old and advanced in years; and the LORD said to him, You have grown old, yet very much land remains to be taken.

2 This is the land that yet remains: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

3 From Sihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the borders of Ekron, which is counted as Canaanite: five rulers of the Philistines; the Gazathites, the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; and also the Avites:

4 In the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah which belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:

5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baalgad below mount Hermon to the gate of Hamath.

6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, I will drive them out from before the children of Israel: but distribute the land by lot to the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.

7 ¶ Now then divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,

8 The other half having received their inheritance with the Reubenites and the Gadites, which Moses gave them, eastward on the other side of the Jordan, just as Moses the servant of the LORD assigned it to them;

9 From Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;

10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;

11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salcah;

12 The entire kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who alone remained of the giants: for Moses had defeated them, and driven them out.

13 Nevertheless the children of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites, or the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites live among the Israelites to this day.

14 However he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said to them.

15 And Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben an inheritance according to their families.

16 And their territory was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;

17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,

18 And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar on the hill of the valley,

20 And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,

21 And all the cities of the plain, and the entire kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

22 Among those who were slain, the children of Israel also slew the soothsayer Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

23 And the border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan, as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, with their cities and villages.

24 And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, the children of Gad according to their families.

25 And their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is east of Rabbah;

26 And from Heshbon to Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even to the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side of the Jordan eastward.

28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.

29 And Moses gave an inheritance to the half tribe of Manasseh: and it was allotted to the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.

30 Their territory extended from Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the entire kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities:

31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, these were allotted to the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to one half of the children of Machir by their families.

32 These are the lands which Moses distributed for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, east of Jericho.

33 But Moses did not give any inheritance to the tribe of Levi: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said to them.