World English Bible · Entering the land
Joshua 13
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Now was old and well advanced in years. said to him, "You are old and advanced in years, and there yet very much land to be . "This is the land that still : all the regions of the , and all the Geshurites; from the , which is before , even to the border of northward, which is counted as ; the five lords of the ; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim, on the south; all the land of , and Mearah that belongs to the , to , to the border of the ; and the land of the Gebalites, and all , toward the sunrise, from Gad under to the entrance of ; all the inhabitants of the hill country from to Misrephoth Maim, even all the . I will drive them out from before the . allocate it to Israel for an , as I have commanded you. Now therefore divide this land for an to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of ." With him the and the received their , which gave them, beyond eastward, even as the gave them: from , that is on the edge of the valley of the , and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of to ; and all the cities of king of the , who reigned in , to the border of ; and , and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all , and all to ; all of in , who reigned in and in (who was left of of the ); for attacked these, and drove them out. Nevertheless the didn't drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to this day. Only he gave no to the tribe of . The of , the of Israel, made by are his , as he spoke to him. 15 gave to the tribe of the children of according to their families. Their border was from , that is on the edge of the valley of the , and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by ; , and all its cities that are in the plain; , , , , Kedemoth, Mephaath, , , Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley, Beth , the slopes of , , all the cities of the plain, and all of king of the , who reigned in , whom struck with the chiefs of , Evi, , Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of , who lived in the land. The also killed the son of , the , with , among the rest of their slain. 23The border of the children of was the bank of . This was the of the children of according to their families, the cities and its villages. gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families. Their border was , and all the cities of , and half the land of , to that is near ; and from to Ramath , and Betonim; and from to the border of ; and in the valley, Beth Haram, , , and Zaphon, the rest of of king of , bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of beyond eastward. 28This is the of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and its villages. 29 gave an to the half-tribe of . It was for the half-tribe of the children of according to their families. Their border was from , all , all of king of , and all the villages of , which are in , sixty cities. Half , , and , the cities of of in , were for the children of the son of , even for the half of the children of according to their families. 32These are the inheritances which distributed in , beyond at , eastward. But gave no to the tribe of . , the of Israel, is their , as he spoke to them.
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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.