Joshua 13:8-33

8 With the other half-tribe, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance which Moses gave them ¹beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the LORD gave to them;

9 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba, as far as Dibon;

10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;

11 and ²Gilead, and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah;

12 all the kingdom of ³Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim ); for Moses ⁴struck them and dispossessed them.

13 But the sons of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites or the Maacathites; for Geshur and Maacath live among Israel until this day.

14 ⁵Only to the tribe of Levi he did not give an inheritance; the offerings by fire to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as He spoke to him.

15 So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.

16 Their territory was ⁶from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley and all the plain by Medeba;

17 Heshbon, and all its cities which are on the plain: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon,

18 and ⁷Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath,

19 and ⁸Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

20 and Beth-peor and the slopes of Pisgah and Beth-jeshimoth,

21 even all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, ⁹Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

22 The sons of Israel also killed ¹⁰Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword among the rest of their slain.

23 The border of the sons of Reuben was the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their villages.

24 Moses also gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad, according to their families.

25 Their territory was ¹¹Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer which is before * Rabbah;

26 and from Heshbon as far as Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far as the border of Debir;

27 and in the valley, Beth-haram and Beth-nimrah and Succoth and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as a border, as far as the lower end of the Sea of ¹²Chinnereth beyond the Jordan to the east.

28 This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their families, the cities and their villages.

29 Moses also gave an inheritance to the half-tribe * of Manasseh; and it was for the half-tribe * of the sons of Manasseh according to their families.

30 Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all ¹³the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;

31 also half of Gilead, with ¹⁴Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir according to their families.

32 These are the territories which Moses apportioned for an inheritance in the plains of Moab, beyond * the Jordan at Jericho to the east.

33 But ¹⁵to the tribe of Levi, Moses did not give an inheritance; the LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as He had promised to them.

Joshua 13:8-33 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 12:1-6
• 2. Genesis 37:25; Numbers 32:29; Joshua 13:25; Joshua 17:5
• 3. Deuteronomy 3:11
• 4. Numbers 21:24
• 5. Deuteronomy 18:1, 2
• 6. Joshua 13:9
• 7. Numbers 21:23; Judges 11:20; Isaiah 15:4; Jeremiah 48:34
• 8. Numbers 32:37; Jeremiah 48:1, 23; Ezekiel 25:9
• 9. Numbers 31:8
• 10. Numbers 31:8
• 11. Numbers 21:32; Joshua 21:39; 2 Samuel 24:5; 1 Chronicles 6:81; 1 Chronicles 26:31; Isaiah 16:8; Jeremiah 48:32
• 12. Numbers 34:11; Deuteronomy 3:17
• 13. Numbers 32:41
• 14. Joshua 9:10; Joshua 12:4; Joshua 13:12; Judges 10:6; 1 Samuel 7:3; 1 Samuel 12:10; 1 Chronicles 6:71
• 15. Deuteronomy 18:1; Joshua 13:14

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "it, the"
• [b]. Or "border"
• [c]. Lit "his"
• [d]. Or "border"
• [e]. Lit "Jordan and border"
• [f]. Or "Lidebir"
• [g]. Lit "and border"
• [h]. I.e. Galilee
• [i]. Lit "tent villages"
• [j]. Lit "spoken to"