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Division of the Land

¹Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.[ † ]Joshua 14:10Joshua 23:1-2 ²This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,[ † ]Judges 3:1-3Joel 3:4Joshua 13:132 Samuel 3:3 ³from Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:[ † ]1 Chronicles 13:5Jeremiah 2:18Judges 3:3Deuteronomy 2:23 ⁴from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:[ † ]Joshua 12:18Joshua 19:301 Samuel 4:11 Kings 20:26-30Judges 1:34 ⁵and the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.[ † ]1 Kings 5:18Ezekiel 27:9Joshua 12:7 ⁶All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.[ † ]Joshua 11:8Joshua 23:13Judges 2:21-23Joshua 14:1-2 ⁷Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh, ⁸with whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them;[ † ]Numbers 32:33Deuteronomy 3:12-13Joshua 22:4Joshua 12:1-6 ⁹from Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;[ † ]Numbers 21:30Joshua 13:16 ¹⁰and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;[ † ]Numbers 21:24-25 ¹¹and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;[ † ]Numbers 32:1Joshua 12:5 ¹²all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.[ † ]Deuteronomy 3:11Joshua 12:4Numbers 21:24-34, 35 ¹³Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.[ † ]Joshua 13:11

In the East

¹⁴Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.[ † ]Numbers 18:20-23, 24Deuteronomy 18:1Joshua 14:3-4Joshua 13:33

¹⁵And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.[ † ]Numbers 34:14Joshua 13:15-23 ¹⁶And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;[ † ]Joshua 12:2Numbers 21:28Numbers 21:30Joshua 13:9 ¹⁷Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,[ † ]Numbers 21:28-30 ¹⁸and Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,[ † ]Numbers 21:23Judges 11:20Isaiah 15:4Jeremiah 48:34 ¹⁹and Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount of the valley,[ † ]Numbers 32:37Jeremiah 48:1-23Ezekiel 25:9Numbers 32:38 ²⁰and Beth-peor, and Ashdoth-pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,[ † ]Deuteronomy 3:17Joshua 12:3 ²¹and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.[ † ]Deuteronomy 3:10Numbers 21:24Numbers 31:8 ²²Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.[ † ]Numbers 22:5Numbers 31:8 ²³And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof . This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.

²⁴And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families.[ † ]Numbers 34:141 Chronicles 5:11 ²⁵And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;[ † ]Numbers 32:1-35Judges 11:13-15Deuteronomy 3:112 Samuel 11:12 Samuel 12:26 ²⁶and from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir; ²⁷and in the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.[ † ]Numbers 32:36Genesis 33:171 Kings 7:46Numbers 34:11Deuteronomy 3:17 ²⁸This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.

²⁹And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.[ † ]Numbers 34:141 Chronicles 5:23 ³⁰And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:[ † ]Numbers 32:411 Chronicles 2:23 ³¹and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.[ † ]Joshua 9:10Joshua 12:4Joshua 13:121 Chronicles 6:71Numbers 32:39-40Joshua 17:1

³²These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward. ³³But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.[ † ]Deuteronomy 18:1Joshua 13:14Joshua 18:7Numbers 18:20Deuteronomy 10:9Deuteronomy 18:1-2