Lands Yet Unconquered

(Judges 1:1–7)

13 Now Joshua was old [and] well along in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old [and] well along in years, but very much of the land remains to be possessed.

• 2 This is the land that remains: All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites, 3 from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite [territory])—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;
• 4 to the south, all the land of the Canaanites, from Mearah[fn] of the Sidonians to Aphek, as far as the border of the Amorites;
• 5 the land of the Gebalites;[fn] and all Lebanon to the east from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.

6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim—all the Sidonians—I Myself will drive out before the Israelites Be sure to divide it by lot as an inheritance to Israel, as I have commanded you. 7 Now therefore divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”