Joshua 13

English Standard Version

Land Still to Be Conquered

13 Now Joshua ^(A)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 ^(B)to possess. ²^(C)This is the land that yet remains: all the ^(D)regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites ³(from the ^(E)Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; ^(F)there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of ^(G)the Avvim, ⁴in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of ^(H)the Amorites, ⁵and the land of the ^(I)Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from ^(J)Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to ^(K)Lebo-hamath, ⁶all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to ^(L)Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive ^(M)them out from before the people of Israel. Only ^(N)allot the land to Israel ^(O)for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. ⁷Now therefore ^(P)divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

The Inheritance East of the Jordan

⁸With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh^[a] the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, ^(Q)which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them: ⁹^(R)from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and ^(S)all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon; ¹⁰^(T)and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites; ¹¹and Gilead, and the ^(U)region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and ^(V)all Bashan to Salecah; ¹²^(W)all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of ^(X)the remnant of the Rephaim); ^(Y)these Moses had struck and driven out. ¹³^(Z)Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.

¹⁴^(AA)To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.

¹⁵And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans. ¹⁶So their territory was from Aroer, ^(AB)which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by ^(AC)Medeba; ¹⁷with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; ^(AD)Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, ¹⁸^(AE)and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, ¹⁹and ^(AF)Kiriathaim, and ^(AG)Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, ²⁰and ^(AH)Beth-peor, and ^(AI)the slopes of Pisgah, and ^(AJ)Beth-jeshimoth, ²¹that is, ^(AK)all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, ^(AL)whom Moses defeated with ^(AM)the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. ²²^(AN)Balaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain. ²³And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.

²⁴Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans. ²⁵^(AO)Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of ^(AP)Rabbah, ²⁶and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from ^(AQ)Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,^[b] ²⁷and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, ^(AR)Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of ^(AS)Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan. ²⁸This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.

²⁹And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans. ³⁰Their region extended from ^(AT)Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all ^(AU)the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities, ³¹and half Gilead, and ^(AV)Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of ^(AW)Machir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.

³²These are the inheritances that Moses distributed ^(AX)in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho. ³³^(AY)But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, ^(AZ)just as he said to them.