Land Still to Be Conquered (JOS 13:1-7)

[13:1] Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.

[13:2] This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites

[13:3] (from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim,

[13:4] in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,

[13:5] and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-Hamath,

[13:6] all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-Maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.

[13:7] Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”