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Joshua 13 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Remaining Land to Be Conquered
The Land East of the Jordan
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:1 - Now Joshua was old, advanced in years. And the LORD said to him: “You are old, advanced in years, and there remains very much land yet to be possessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:2 - “This is the land that yet remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all that of the Geshurites,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:3 - “from Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward (which is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the Philistines—the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:4 - “from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:5 - “the land of the Gebalites,[fn] and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:6 - “all the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon as far as the Brook Misrephoth,[fn] and all the Sidonians—them I will drive out from before the children of Israel; only divide it by lot to Israel as an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:7 - “Now therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”
The Land Divided East of the Jordan
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:8 - With the other half-tribe the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses had given them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD had given them:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:9 - from Aroer which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and the town that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plain of Medeba as far as Dibon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the children of Ammon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:11 - Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salcah;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:12 - all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants; for Moses had defeated and cast out these.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:13 - Nevertheless the children of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maachathites, but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:14 - Only to the tribe of Levi he had given no inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as He said to them.
The Land of Reuben
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:15 - And Moses had given to the tribe of the children of Reuben an inheritance according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:16 - Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plain by Medeba;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:17 - Heshbon and all its cities that are in the plain: Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:18 - Jahaza, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:19 - Kirjathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the mountain of the valley,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:20 - Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth—
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses had struck with the princes of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who were princes of Sihon dwelling in the country.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:22 - The children of Israel also killed with the sword Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, among those who were killed by them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - And the border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their villages.
The Land of Gad
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:24 - Moses also had given an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:25 - Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, which is before Rabbah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:26 - and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:27 - and in the valley Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as its border, as far as the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth, on the other side of the Jordan eastward.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28 - This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Half the Tribe of Manasseh (East)
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:29 - Moses also had given an inheritance to half the tribe of Manasseh; it was for half the tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:30 - Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair which are in Bashan, sixty cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:31 - half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Machir according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:32 - These are the areas which Moses had distributed as an inheritance in the plains of Moab on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:33 - But to the tribe of Levi Moses had given no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as He had said to them.
NKJV Footnotes
Or Giblites
Hebrew Misrephoth Maim
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