Joshua 13

1Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.Cross-references: Gen 18:11 · Deut 31:3 · Josh 14:10 · Josh 23:1 · Josh 24:29 · 1Ki 1:1 · +1 more

2“This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;Cross-references: Gen 10:14 · Gen 26:1 · Ex 23:29 · Deut 11:23 · Josh 12:5 · Josh 13:11 · +7 more

3from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,Cross-references: Gen 10:6 · Gen 10:15 · Num 34:2 · Deut 2:23 · Josh 13:13 · Judg 3:3 · +4 more

4on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;Cross-references: Josh 10:40 · Josh 11:3 · Josh 12:7 · Josh 12:18 · Josh 19:30 · Judg 1:34 · +2 more

5and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;Cross-references: Num 34:8 · Deut 1:7 · Deut 3:25 · Josh 11:17 · Josh 12:7 · 1Ki 5:18 · +4 more

6all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians. I will drive them out from before the children of Israel. Just allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Ex 23:30 · Num 33:54 · Josh 11:8 · Josh 14:1 · Josh 23:4 · +2 more

7Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”Cross-references: Num 26:53 · Num 32:2 · Num 33:54 · Ezek 47:13 · Ezek 48:23

8With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:Cross-references: Num 32:33 · Deut 3:12 · Josh 4:12 · Josh 12:6 · Josh 22:4

9from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;Cross-references: Num 21:30 · Deut 3:12 · Deut 3:16 · Josh 12:2 · Josh 13:16 · Isa 15:2 · +2 more

10and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;Cross-references: Num 21:24

11and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;Cross-references: Deut 4:47 · Josh 12:2 · 1Chr 2:23

12all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (who was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.Cross-references: Num 21:23 · Deut 3:10 · Josh 12:4 · Josh 14:3

13Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to this day.Cross-references: Num 33:55 · Josh 13:11 · Josh 23:12 · Judg 2:1 · 2Sam 3:3 · 2Sam 13:37

14Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The offerings of Yahweh, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.Cross-references: Num 18:20 · Deut 10:9 · Deut 12:12 · Deut 12:19 · Deut 18:1 · Josh 14:3

15Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

16Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;Cross-references: Num 21:28 · Num 32:33 · Deut 3:12 · Josh 12:2 · Josh 13:9 · Isa 15:1 · +3 more

17Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,Cross-references: Num 21:19 · Num 22:41 · Num 32:38

18Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,Cross-references: Num 21:23 · Josh 21:36 · 1Chr 6:78

19Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,Cross-references: Num 32:37

20Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,Cross-references: Num 25:3 · Num 33:49 · Deut 3:17 · Deut 4:46 · Josh 12:3 · Ezek 25:9

21all 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, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.Cross-references: Num 21:24 · Num 31:8 · Deut 2:30 · Deut 3:10

22The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.Cross-references: Num 22:5 · Num 24:1 · Num 31:8 · 2Pet 2:15 · Jude 1:11 · Rev 2:14 · +1 more

23The 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 its villages.

24Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.Cross-references: Num 32:34

25Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is near Rabbah;Cross-references: Num 21:26 · Num 21:32 · Num 32:35 · Deut 2:19 · Deut 3:11 · Josh 21:39 · +5 more

26and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;Cross-references: Gen 31:49 · Gen 32:1 · Josh 20:8 · Josh 21:38 · Judg 10:17 · Judg 11:11 · +5 more

27and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.Cross-references: Gen 33:17 · Num 32:3 · Num 32:36 · Num 34:11 · Deut 3:17 · Josh 11:2 · +5 more

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

29Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.

30Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities.Cross-references: Num 32:39 · Deut 3:13 · Josh 13:26 · 1Chr 2:21

31Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.Cross-references: Num 32:39 · Josh 12:4

32These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.

33But Moses gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. Yahweh, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.Cross-references: Num 18:20 · Deut 10:9 · Deut 18:1 · Josh 13:14 · Josh 18:7