King James Version · Entering the land
Joshua 13
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Now was old and stricken in years; and said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be . This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the , and all Geshuri, From Sihor, which is before , even unto the borders of northward, which is counted to the : five lords of the ; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites: From the south, all the land of , and Mearah that is beside the , unto , to the borders of the : And the land of the Giblites, and all , toward the sunrising, from –gad under unto the entering into . All the inhabitants of the hill country from unto Misrephoth–maim, and all the , them will I drive out from before the : only divide thou it by lot unto the for an , as I have commanded thee. Now therefore divide this land for an unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of , With whom the and the have received their , which gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as the gave them; From , that is upon the bank of the river , and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of unto ; And all the cities of king of the , which reigned in , unto the border of ; And , and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all , and all unto Salcah; All of in , which reigned in and in , who remained of of the giants: for these did smite, and cast them out. Nevertheless the expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites among the until this day. Only unto the tribe of he gave none ; the of of Israel made by are their , as he said unto them. 15And gave unto the tribe of the children of according to their families. And their coast was from , that is on the bank of the river , and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by ; , and all her cities that are in the plain; , and –baal, and , And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, And Kirjathaim, and , and Zareth–shahar in the mount of the valley, And Beth–peor, and Ashdoth–pisgah, and , And all the cities of the plain, and all of king of the , which reigned in , whom smote with the princes of , Evi, and , and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of , dwelling in the country. also the son of , the , did the with among them that were slain by them. 23And the border of the children of was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the of the children of after their families, the cities and the villages thereof. And gave unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families. And their coast was , and all the cities of , and half the land of , unto that is before ; And from unto Ramath–mizpeh, and Betonim; and from unto the border of ; And in the valley, Beth–aram, and , and , and Zaphon, the rest of of king of , Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of on the other side Jordan eastward. 28This is the of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages. 29And gave unto the half tribe of : and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of by their families. And their coast was from , all , all of king of , and all the towns of , which are in , threescore cities: And half , and , and , cities of of in , were pertaining unto the children of the son of , even to the one half of the children of by their families. 32These are the countries which did distribute for in , on the other side Jordan, by , eastward. But unto the tribe of gave not any : of Israel was their , as he said unto them.
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · Entering the land, 1250 BC to 1200 BC ›
Israel crossing into Canaan and contending with fortified city-states, each with its own king, in a land Egypt had recently dominated and was now losing its grip on.
- The collapse
- The whole eastern Mediterranean is coming apart. Within about fifty years the Hittite empire falls, its capital burns, the Mycenaean palaces are destroyed, Ugarit is wiped out mid-correspondence, and Egypt is fighting for its life against seaborne invaders. Nobody fully knows why. Drought, earthquake, migration, and the failure of interlocking trade are all in the explanation.
- Egypt
- Still strong enough to record a victory over a people called Israel on a stone monument around 1207 BC, the earliest mention of the name outside the Bible. But Egyptian control of Canaan is slipping, and within a generation it is gone.
- Canaan
- Not a country but dozens of walled towns, each with its own king, its own god, and its own quarrel with the next valley. This is why the book of Joshua reads as a list of kings rather than a war with a nation.
- Further afield
- Iron is beginning to replace bronze across the region, partly because the tin trade that made bronze possible has broken down. The Olmec are building San Lorenzo. The Zhou are about to overthrow the Shang in China.