Joshua 13

Thomson^{(i) 1} Joshua was now far advanced in years, therefore the Lord said to Joshua, Thou art advanced in years, and there is much land left to be taken possession of. ² Now this is the land which is left; the borders of the Philistines, the Geserites, ³ and the Chananites. The land from the desart which is before Egypt, to the borders of Akkaron, on the left of the Chananites, is set out to the five Satrapies of the Philistines, the Gazites and the Azotians, and the Askalonites, and the Getthites, and the Akkaronites, comprehending the Evaites. ⁴ From Thaiman, throughout the whole land, lieth Chanaan before Gaza. And the Sidonians extend to Aphek, and to the borders of the Amorites. ⁵ Now all the land of Galiath-phylistiim, and all Libanus, from the rising of the sun; from Galgal, at the foot of mount Aermon, to the bay of Aimath; ⁶ all the inhabitants of the hilly country, from Libanus to Masereth-memphomaim; all the Sidonians; them I will myself drive out from before Israel; but distribute thou it, by lot, to Israel, as I have commanded thee. ⁷ Now therefore divide this land, for a possession among the nine tribes, and the half of the tribe of Manasses. ⁸ Thou shalt give it from the Jordan to the great sea, at the setting of the sun: that great sea shall be your boundary. To the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, Moses hath given on the eastern border of the Jordan. Moses the servant of the Lord had given them ⁹ from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Anion, that city which is in the middle of the vale, and all Misor from Maidaban; ¹⁰ all the cities of Seon, king of the Amorites, who reigned at Esebon, to the borders, of the children of Ammon; ¹¹ and Galaaditis; and the country of the Geserites, and the Machatites; all mount Aermon; and all Basanitis to Acha; Now the children of Israel had not destroyed the Gesirites, nor the Machatite, who was a Chananite. And the king of Gesiri, and the Machatite, still dwelt among the Israelites. ¹² all the kingdom of Og, in Basanitis, who reigned in Astaroth and Edrain, he was a remnant of the giants, and Moses smote him and destroyed him. ¹⁴ But to the tribe of Levi there was no possession given. The Lord, the God of Israel is himself their possession, as the Lord said to them. Now this was the distribution which Moses made to the children of Israel at Araboth-Moab, on the border of the Jordan, over against Jericho.; ¹⁵ To the tribe of Reuben, according to their communities, Moses gave, ¹⁶ and these were their borders; from Aroer, which is in front of the vale of Arnon, including the city in the vale of Arnon, all the Misor to ¹⁷ Esebon, and, all the cities in Misor, namely Daibon, and Baimon-baal, and house of Meelboth, ¹⁸ and Basan, and Bakedmoth, and Maiphaad, ¹⁹ and Kariathaim, and Sebama, and Serada, and Sion on mount Enab, ²⁰ and Baithphogor, and Asedothphasga, and Baithaseinoth, ²¹ even all the cities of Misor, and all the kingdom of Seon king of the Amorites, whom Moses slew, and with him the leaders of Madiam, Evi, and Robok, and Sour, and Our, and Kobe, the chief; at the rifling of Sion, when the Israelites slew the inhabitants of Sion, and in the route, ²² Balaam son of Beor the prophet. ²³ These were the borders of Reuben, and Jordan was a boundary. This was the possession of the children of Reuben, according to their communities, and these were their cities and their sheepcots. ²⁴ And to the children of Gad, according to their communities, Moses gave, ²⁵ and these were their borders, Jazer, all the cities of Galaad, and the half of the land of Ammon, even to Araba, which is in front of Arad, ²⁶ and from Esebon to Araboth, over against Massepha, and Botanim, and Maan to the border of Daibon, ²⁷ and Enadom, and Othargai, and Bainthanabra, and Sokchotha, and Saphan, and the residue of the kingdom of Seon, king of Esebon. And the Jordan is their boundary, to a part of the sea of Cheneroth, on the east side of the Jordan. ²⁸ This is the possession of the children of Gad, according to their communities, and according to their cities. According to their communities they can face their enemies; for their cities, and their sheepcots, were distributed according to their communities. ²⁹ And to the half of the tribe of Manasses, according to their communities, Moses gave, ³⁰ and these were their borders; from Maan, all the kingdom of Basan, even all the kingdom of Og, king of Basan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Basanitis, sixty cities, ³¹ and the half of Galaad, and in Astaroth, and in Edrain, the cities of the kingdom of Og, in Basanitis. These he gave to the Machirites, the children of Manasses, to one half of the Machirites, the children of Manasses, according to their communities. ³² These were they to whom Moses gave possessions on the east side of the Jordan, at Araboth; Moab, on the bank of the Jordan over against Jericho. ³³ [Omitted]