Joshua 13:1-7

Canaan Divided among the Tribes

1 Now ¹Joshua was old and advanced in years when the LORD said to him, "You are old and advanced in years, and very much of the land remains to be possessed.

2 "This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the ²Geshurites;

3 from the Shihor which is east * of Egypt, even as far as the border of Ekron to the north (it is counted as Canaanite ); the ³five lords of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the Avvite

4 to the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, as far as ⁴Aphek, to the border of the ⁵Amorite;

5 and the land of the ⁶Gebalite, and all of Lebanon, toward the east *, ⁷from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.

6 "All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon as far as ⁸Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians, I will drive them out from before * the sons of Israel; ⁹only allot it to Israel for an inheritance as I have commanded you.

7 "Now therefore, apportion this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe * of Manasseh."

Joshua 13:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

\\INTRODUCTION JOSHUA 13\\

In this chapter Joshua is informed by the Lord, or put in mind, that
part of the land of Canaan remained unconquered, and which it was; and
is directed to divide the whole land among the nine tribes, and the
half tribe of Manasseh, Jos 13:1-9; and since the two tribes of Reuben
and Gad, and the other half tribe of Manasseh, had received their
inheritance on the other side Jordan, Jos 13:8; that is described in
general, Jos 13:9-14; and, then the particular portion of Reuben,
Jos 13:15-23; and of Gad, Jos 13:24-28; and of the half tribe of
Manasseh, Jos 13:29-33.

Cross References

• 1. Joshua 14:10
• 2. Joshua 13:11; 1 Samuel 27:8
• 3. 1 Samuel 6:4, 16
• 4. Joshua 12:18; Joshua 19:30; 1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Kings 20:26, 30
• 5. Ezekiel 16:3; Amos 2:10
• 6. 1 Kings 5:18
• 7. Joshua 12:7
• 8. Joshua 11:8
• 9. Numbers 33:54

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "on the face of"
• [b]. Or "from the Teman"
• [c]. Lit "sunrise"
• [d]. Or "the entrance of Hamath"
• [e]. Or "dispossess"