Joshua 13:2

Contemporary English Version

First, there is the Canaanite territory that starts at the Shihor River just east of Egypt and goes north to Ekron. The southern part of this region belongs to the Avvites and the Geshurites, and the land around Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron belongs to the five Philistine rulers. The other Canaanite territory is in the north. Its northern border starts at the town of Arah, which belongs to the Sidonians. From there, it goes to Aphek, then along the Amorite border to Hamath Pass. The eastern border starts at Hamath Pass and goes south to Baal-Gad at the foot of Mount Hermon, and its southern boundary runs west from there to Misrephoth-Maim. This northern region includes the Lebanon Mountains and the land that belongs to the Gebalites and the Sidonians who live in the hill country from the Lebanon Mountains to Misrephoth-Maim. With my help, Israel will capture these Canaanite territories and force out the people who live there. But you must divide up the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea among the nine tribes and the half of Manasseh that don't have any land yet. Then each tribe will have its own land.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is the land that remains:

Hebrew Names Version
This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Pelishtim, and all the Geshuri;

King James Version
This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

Lexham English Bible
This is the remaining land: all the regions of the Philistines, and all of the Geshurites,

English Standard Version
This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites

New Century Version
This is what is left: the regions of Geshur and of the Philistines;

New English Translation
This is the land that remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all the Geshurites,

Amplified Bible
"This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites;

New American Standard Bible
"This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites;

Geneva Bible (1587)
This is the land that remaineth, all the regions of the Philistims, and all Geshuri,

Legacy Standard Bible
This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites;

Complete Jewish Bible
"This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the P'lishtim and all the G'shuri,

Darby Translation
This is the land that yet remaineth: all the districts of the Philistines and all the Geshurites,

Easy-to-Read Version
You have not yet taken the land of Geshur or the land of the Philistines.

George Lamsa Translation
This is the land that yet remains in all regions of the Philistines and in all the country of En-dor,

Good News Translation
all the territory of Philistia and Geshur,

Literal Translation
This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and there remayneth yet moch of the londe to conquere, namely all Galile of the Philistynes, and all Gessuri,

American Standard Version
This is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

Bible in Basic English
This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
This is the lande that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and al Gessuri:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
This is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

King James Version (1611)
This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And this is the land that is left: the borders of the Phylistines, the Gesirite, and the Chananite,

English Revised Version
This is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

Berean Standard Bible
This is the land that remains: All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that is, al Galile, Filistiym, and al Gessuri,

Young's Literal Translation
`This [is] the land that is left; all the circuits of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

Update Bible Version
This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

Webster's Bible Translation
This [is] the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

World English Bible
This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

New King James Version
This is the land that yet remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all that of the Geshurites,

New Living Translation
This is the territory that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and the Geshurites,

New Life Bible
This is the land that is left. There is all the land of the Philistines and the Geshurites,

New Revised Standard
This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is the land that remaineth, - all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshuri;

Douay-Rheims Bible
To wit, all Galilee, Philistia, and all Gessuri.

Revised Standard Version
This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Gesh'urites

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites;

Contextual Overview

¹ Many years later, the Lord told Joshua: Now you are very old, but there is still a lot of land that Israel has not yet taken. ²First, there is the Canaanite territory that starts at the Shihor River just east of Egypt and goes north to Ekron. The southern part of this region belongs to the Avvites and the Geshurites, and the land around Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron belongs to the five Philistine rulers. The other Canaanite territory is in the north. Its northern border starts at the town of Arah, which belongs to the Sidonians. From there, it goes to Aphek, then along the Amorite border to Hamath Pass. The eastern border starts at Hamath Pass and goes south to Baal-Gad at the foot of Mount Hermon, and its southern boundary runs west from there to Misrephoth-Maim. This northern region includes the Lebanon Mountains and the land that belongs to the Gebalites and the Sidonians who live in the hill country from the Lebanon Mountains to Misrephoth-Maim. With my help, Israel will capture these Canaanite territories and force out the people who live there. But you must divide up the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea among the nine tribes and the half of Manasseh that don't have any land yet. Then each tribe will have its own land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the land: Exodus 23:29-31, Deuteronomy 11:23, Deuteronomy 11:24, Judges 3:1

borders: Genesis 10:14, Genesis 26:1, Joel 3:4

Geshuri: Joshua 13:11, Joshua 13:13, Joshua 12:5, 1 Samuel 27:8, 2 Samuel 3:3, 2 Samuel 13:37, 2 Samuel 13:38, 2 Samuel 15:8

Reciprocal: Joshua 23:4 - Behold 2 Chronicles 9:26 - river Obadiah 1:19 - the plain

Cross-References

Genesis 13:1
Abram and Sarai took everything they owned and went to the Southern Desert. Lot went with them.

Genesis 13:3
Abram moved from place to place in the Southern Desert. And finally, he went north and set up his tents between Bethel and Ai,

Genesis 13:9
There is plenty of land for you to choose from. Let's separate. If you go north, I'll go south; if you go south, I'll go north."

Genesis 13:10
This happened before the Lord had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And when Lot looked around, he saw there was plenty of water in the Jordan Valley. All the way to Zoar the valley was as green as the garden of the Lord or the land of Egypt.

Genesis 13:12
Abram stayed in the land of Canaan. But Lot settled near the cities of the valley and put up his tents not far from Sodom,

Genesis 13:13
where the people were evil and sinned terribly against the Lord .

Genesis 24:35
The Lord has been good to my master and has made him very rich. He has given him many sheep, goats, cattle, camels, and donkeys, as well as a lot of silver and gold, and many slaves.

Deuteronomy 8:18
Instead, remember that the Lord your God gives you the strength to make a living. That's how he keeps the promise he made to your ancestors.

1 Samuel 2:7
Our Lord , you are the one who makes us rich or poor. You put some in high positions and bring disgrace on others.

Job 1:3
He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred pair of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and a large number of servants. He was the richest person in the East.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This [is] the land that yet remaineth,.... Unconquered and not enjoyed, namely, what is after described; and this account is given for Joshua's information, that he might know what to divide, and for the people of Israel's sake, that they might know what they had a right to a claim upon; what they should endeavour to possess themselves of, and what the Lord would deliver into their hands, provided they were obedient to his will, for, because they were not, hence many of these places never came into their possession, though divided to them by lot:

all the borders of the Philistines; whose country bordered and lay upon the shores of the Mediterranean sea, in the southwest of the land of Canaan:

and all Geshuri; the principal city belonging to it is said to be in Syria, 2 Samuel 15:8; and had a king over it in the times of David, 2 Samuel 3:3; and seems never to have come into the hands of the Israelites.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This and Joshua 13:3 name the still unconquered districts in the southern half of the land, Joshua 13:4-6 those in the north.

Geshuri - A district on the south of Philistia, the inhabitants of which are again named in 1 Samuel 27:8; but are not to be confounded with the land of the Geshurites mentioned in Joshua 13:13; Joshua 12:5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 13:2. The borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri — The borders of the Philistines may mean the land which they possessed on the sea-coast, southwest of the land of Canaan. There were several places named Geshuri, but that spoken of here was probably the region on the south of Canaan, towards Arabia, or towards Egypt. - Calmet. Cellarius supposes it to have been a country in the vicinity of the Amalekites.