Joshua 13-14New King James Version (NKJV)
Remaining Land to Be Conquered
13 Now Joshua 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 This
is the land that yet remains: all the territory of the Philistines and
all that of the Geshurites, 3 from
Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward
(which is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the
Philistines—the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and
the Ekronites; also the Avites; 4 from the south,
all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians as far
as Aphek, to the border of the Amorites; 5 the land
of the Gebalites,[a] and all Lebanon,
toward the sunrise, 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 the Brook Misrephoth,[b] and all
the Sidonians—them I will drive out from before the children of Israel; only
divide 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 Land Divided East of the Jordan
8 With the other half-tribe the
Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses had given
them, 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, and all the plain of
Medeba as far as Dibon; 10 all the cities of Sihon
king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the
children of Ammon; 11 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 the remnant of the giants; for
Moses had defeated and cast out these.
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.
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.
The Land of Reuben
15 And Moses had given to the tribe
of the children of Reuben an inheritance according to their
families. 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; 17 Heshbon and all its cities that are in
the plain: Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, 18 Jahaza,
Kedemoth, Mephaath, 19 Kirjathaim, Sibmah, Zereth
Shahar on the mountain of the valley, 20 Beth Peor,
the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth— 21 all
the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who
reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses had struck 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 Balaam the son of Beor, the 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.
The Land of Gad
24 Moses also had given an
inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad according to
their families. 25 Their territory was Jazer, and
all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer,
which is before Rabbah, 26 and
from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of
Debir, 27 and in the valley Beth Haram, Beth
Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon,
with the Jordan as its border, as far as 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 according to their families, the cities and
their villages.
Half the Tribe of Manasseh (East)
29 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 all the towns of Jair which are in Bashan, sixty cities; 31 half
of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in
Bashan, were for the 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 distributed as an inheritance in the plains of Moab on the other side
of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward. 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.
The Land Divided West of the Jordan
14 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. 2 Their
inheritance was by lot, as the Lord had commanded by
the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe. 3 For
Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe on the
other side of the Jordan; but to the Levites he had given no inheritance among
them. 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes:
Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except
cities to dwell in, with their common-lands for their
livestock and their property. 5 As
the Lord had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they
divided the land.
Caleb Inherits Hebron
6 Then the children of Judah came to
Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him:
“You know the word which the Lord said to Moses the man of God
concerning you and me in Kadesh Barnea. 7 I was forty
years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh
Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in
my heart. 8 Nevertheless my brethren who went up
with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed
the Lord my God. 9 So Moses swore on that
day, saying, ‘Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your
inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed
the Lord my God.’ 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. 11 As
yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me;
just as my strength was then, so now is my
strength for war, both for going out and for coming in. 12 Now
therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day;
for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the
cities were great and fortified. It may be
that the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to
drive them out as the Lord said.”
13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave
Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. 14 Hebron
therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to
this day, because he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel. 15 And
the name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the greatest
man among the Anakim).
Then the land had rest from war.
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