Joshua 13-24 Dividing the Land Not Yet Fully Taken & Serving the Lord Wholeheartedly
Overview of Joshua 13-24 including dividing the land - with the call to take it, desctiption of the western territories, and presenting a land of justice and worship; and the final chapters include elements essental to serving the Lord in the land - remaining one nation under God, Joshua's charge to Israel's leaders, and the final covenant renewal at Shechem.
Dividing the Land Not Yet Fully Taken & Serving the Lord Wholeheartedly
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How much of the land of Canaan has been taken?
13 Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.
What specific regions are left to possess?
2 This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites 3 (from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim, 4 in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites, 5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath, 6 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians.
How are the Israelites to take the land?
I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel.
Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. 7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”
Description of Eastern Allotments
Allotment of the Western Territories
And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. 11 I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.