Josué 13:1

1 Josué était vieux, avancé en âge. L'Eternel lui dit alors: Tu es devenu vieux, tu es avancé en âge, et le pays qui te reste à soumettre est très grand.

Josué 13:1 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 13:1

Now Joshua was old, [and] stricken in years
How old he was cannot be said precisely, but it is very probable he was now about an hundred years of age, for he lived to be an hundred ten; and the land of Canaan was seven years in dividing, as the Jews generally say, and it seems as if he did not live long after that:

and the Lord said unto him:
either spoke to him out of the tabernacle, or appeared to him in a dream or vision:

thou art old, [and] stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very
much land to be possessed:
that is, very much of the land of Canaan, which God had promised to Abraham, yet remained unconquered by Joshua, and unpossessed by the children of Israel; and the old age of Joshua is observed, to intimate to him that through it, and the infirmities of it, he was unable to go out to war, and to finish this work, which must be left to be done by others hereafter; and that he should with all expedition set about another work he was capable of doing, before he died, which was the division of the land among the tribes of Israel.

Josué 13:1 In-Context

1 Josué était vieux, avancé en âge. L'Eternel lui dit alors: Tu es devenu vieux, tu es avancé en âge, et le pays qui te reste à soumettre est très grand.

2 Voici le pays qui reste: tous les districts des Philistins et tout le territoire des Gueschuriens,

3 depuis le Schichor qui coule devant l'Egypte jusqu'à la frontière d'Ekron au nord, contrée qui doit être tenue pour cananéenne, et qui est occupée par les cinq princes des Philistins, celui de Gaza, celui d'Asdod, celui d'Askalon, celui de Gath et celui d'Ekron, et par les Avviens;

4 partir du midi, tout le pays des Cananéens, et Meara qui est aux Sidoniens, jusqu'à Aphek, jusqu'à la frontière des Amoréens;

5 le pays des Guibliens, et tout le Liban vers le soleil levant, depuis Baal-Gad au pied de la montagne d'Hermon jusqu'à l'entrée de Hamath;