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        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="JOS.13">
            <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Land Still to Be Taken</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Joshua had grown old, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the land that remains: All the regions of the Philistines and Geshurites, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">from the Shihor River on the east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north, all of it counted as Canaanite though held by the five Philistine rulers in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron; the territory of the Avvites </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, from Arah of the Sidonians as far as Aphek and the border of the Amorites; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">the area of Byblos; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for all the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have instructed you, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Division of the Land East of the Jordan</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The other half of Manasseh,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">With it </span><span class="ft">(that is, with the other half of Manasseh)</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Reubenites and the Gadites had received the inheritance that Moses had given them east of the Jordan, as he, the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, had assigned it to them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">It extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and included the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and all the towns of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, out to the border of the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It also included Gilead, the territory of the people of Geshur and Maakah, all of Mount Hermon and all Bashan as far as Salekah&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">that is, the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei. (He was the last of the Rephaites.) Moses had defeated them and taken over their land. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But the Israelites did not drive out the people of Geshur and Maakah, so they continue to live among the Israelites to this day.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance, since the food offerings presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as he promised them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">This is what Moses had given to the tribe of Reuben, according to its clans:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and the whole plateau past Medeba </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">to Heshbon and all its towns on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">all the towns on the plateau and the entire realm of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled at Heshbon. Moses had defeated him and the Midianite chiefs, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba&#8212;princes allied with Sihon&#8212;who lived in that country. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In addition to those slain in battle, the Israelites had put to the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The boundary of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the Reubenites, according to their clans.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">This is what Moses had given to the tribe of Gad, according to its clans:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The territory of Jazer, all the towns of Gilead and half the Ammonite country as far as Aroer, near Rabbah; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Sukkoth and Zaphon with the rest of the realm of Sihon king of Heshbon (the east side of the Jordan, the territory up to the end of the Sea of Galilee</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:27 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Kinnereth</span></span></span><span class="content">). </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the Gadites, according to their clans.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.13.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">This is what Moses had given to the half-tribe of Manasseh, that is, to half the family of the descendants of Manasseh, according to its clans:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.13.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The territory extending from Mahanaim and including all of Bashan, the entire realm of Og king of Bashan&#8212;all the settlements of Jair in Bashan, sixty towns, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei (the royal cities of Og in Bashan). This was for the descendants of Makir son of Manasseh&#8212;for half of the sons of Makir, according to their clans.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.13.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">This is the inheritance Moses had given when he was in the plains of Moab across the Jordan east of Jericho. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But to the tribe of Levi, Moses had given no inheritance; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he promised them.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch14" data-usfm="JOS.14">
            <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Division of the Land West of the Jordan</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel allotted to them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine-and-a-half tribes, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded through Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Moses had granted the two-and-a-half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">for Joseph&#8217;s descendants had become two tribes&#8212;Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So the Israelites divided the land, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Allotment for Caleb</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, &#8220;You know what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God wholeheartedly. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So on that day Moses swore to me, &#8216;The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God wholeheartedly.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:9 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 1:36</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I&#8217;m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now give me this hill country that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.14.15"><span class="content">Then the land had rest from war.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="JOS.15.1">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The allotment for the tribe of Judah, according to its clans, extended down to the territory of Edom, to the Desert of Zin in the extreme south.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="JOS.15.2">
            <div class="pi1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Their southern boundary started from the bay at the southern end of the Dead Sea, </span></span></div>
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            <div class="pi1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">crossed south of Scorpion Pass, continued on to Zin and went over to the south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it ran past Hezron up to Addar and curved around to Karka. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="pi1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It then passed along to Azmon and joined the Wadi of Egypt, ending at the Mediterranean Sea. This is their</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:4 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">your</span></span></span><span class="content"> southern boundary.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="pi1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The eastern boundary is the Dead Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.15.5"><span class="content">The northern boundary started from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan, </span></span></div>
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            <div class="pi1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">went up to Beth Hoglah and continued north of Beth Arabah to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="pi1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The boundary then went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor and turned north to Gilgal, which faces the Pass of Adummim south of the gorge. It continued along to the waters of En Shemesh and came out at En Rogel. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="pi1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then it ran up the Valley of Ben Hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem). From there it climbed to the top of the hill west of the Hinnom Valley at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="pi1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">From the hilltop the boundary headed toward the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, came out at the towns of Mount Ephron and went down toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath Jearim). </span></span></div>
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            <div class="pi1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then it curved westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Kesalon), continued down to Beth Shemesh and crossed to Timnah. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="pi1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It went to the northern slope of Ekron, turned toward Shikkeron, passed along to Mount Baalah and reached Jabneel. The boundary ended at the sea.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="pi1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The western boundary is the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.15.12"><span class="content">These are the boundaries around the people of Judah by their clans.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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