约书亚记 13:1

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

還未攻取之地約書亞老了，年紀不小；耶和華對他說：“你已經老了，年紀不小；還有很多的地有待征服。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
约 书 亚 年 纪 老 迈 ， 耶 和 华 对 他 说 ： 你 年 纪 老 迈 了 ， 还 有 许 多 未 得 之 地 ，

Contextual Overview

¹ When Joshua was very old, the Lord said to him, "Joshua, you have grown old, but there is still much land for you to take. ² This is what is left: the regions of Geshur and of the Philistines; ³ the area from the Shihor River at the border of Egypt to Ekron in the north, which belongs to the Canaanites; the five Philistine leaders at Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron; the Avvites, ⁴ who live south of the Canaanite land; ⁵ the Gebalites, and the area of Lebanon east of Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath. ⁶ "The Sidonians are living in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, but I will force all of them out ahead of the Israelites. Be sure to remember this land when you divide the land among the Israelites, as I told you. ⁷ "Now divide the land among the nine tribes and West Manasseh."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 2560, bc 1444, An, Ex, Is, 47

Joshua: Joshua 14:10, Joshua 23:1, Joshua 23:2, Joshua 24:29, Genesis 18:11, 1 Kings 1:1, Luke 1:7

to be possessed: Heb. to possess it, Deuteronomy 31:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:22 - Now the sons Leviticus 14:34 - which I Joshua 12:7 - Joshua gave Joshua 20:1 - spake Psalms 136:21 - General Ezekiel 48:29 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 13:9
We should separate. The whole land is there in front of you. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left."

Genesis 20:1
Abraham left Hebron and traveled to southern Canaan where he stayed awhile between Kadesh and Shur. When he moved to Gerar,

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba and prayed to the Lord , the God who lives forever.

Joshua 10:40
So Joshua defeated all the kings of the cities of these areas: the mountains, southern Canaan, the western hills, and the slopes. The Lord , the God of Israel, had told Joshua to completely destroy all the people as an offering to the Lord , so he left no one alive in those places.

Joshua 18:5
They will divide the land into seven parts. The people of Judah will keep their land in the south, and the people of Joseph will keep their land in the north.

1 Samuel 27:10
Achish would ask David, "Where did you go raiding today?" And David would tell him that he had gone to the southern part of Judah, or Jerahmeel, or to the land of the Kenites.

2 Samuel 24:7
They went to the strong, walled city of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went to southern Judah, to Beersheba.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now Joshua was old, [and] stricken in years,.... How old he was cannot be said precisely, but it is very probable he was now about an hundred years of age, for he lived to be an hundred ten; and the land of Canaan was seven years in dividing, as the Jews generally say, and it seems as if he did not live long after that:

and the Lord said unto him: either spoke to him out of the tabernacle, or appeared to him in a dream or vision:

thou art old, [and] stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed: that is, very much of the land of Canaan, which God had promised to Abraham, yet remained unconquered by Joshua, and unpossessed by the children of Israel; and the old age of Joshua is observed, to intimate to him that through it, and the infirmities of it, he was unable to go out to war, and to finish this work, which must be left to be done by others hereafter; and that he should with all expedition set about another work he was capable of doing, before he died, which was the division of the land among the tribes of Israel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Joshua is bidden to allot the whole of the promised land among the twelve tribes in faith that God would perfect in due time that expulsion of the Canaanites which Joshua himself could not carry further (see Joshua 11:23).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIII

Joshua being old, the Lord informs him of the land yet remaining

to be possessed, 1.

Of the unconquered land among the Philistines, 2, 3.

Among the Canaanites, Sidonians, and Amorites, 4, 5.

The inhabitants of the hill country and the Sidonians to be

driven out, 6.

The land on the east side of Jordan, that was to be divided

among the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of

Manasseh, 7-12.

The Geshurites and the Maachathites not expelled, 13.

The tribe of Levi receive no inheritance, 14.

The possessions of REUBEN described, 15-23.

The possessions of GAD, 24-28.

The possessions of the half tribe of Manasseh, 29-31.

Recapitulation of the subjects contained in this chapter,

32, 33.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIII

Verse Joshua 13:1. Joshua was old — He is generally reputed to have been at this time about a hundred years of age: he had spent about seven years in the conquest of the land, and is supposed to have employed about one year in dividing it; and he died about ten years after, aged one hundred and ten years. It is very likely that he intended to subdue the whole land before he made the division of it among the tribes; but God did not think proper to have this done. So unfaithful were the Israelites that he appears to have purposed that some of the ancient inhabitants should still remain to keep them in check, and that the respective tribes should have some labour to drive out from their allotted borders the remains of the Canaanitish nations.

There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. — That is, very much when compared with that on the other side Jordan, which was all that could as yet be said to be in the hands of the Israelites.