Joshua 13:1
Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken.
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Numbers 34:2Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,)
Deuteronomy 31:3The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said.
Joshua 18:3Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?
Joshua 23:1Now after a long time, when the Lord had given Israel rest from wars on every side, and Joshua was old and full of years,
Joshua 24:29Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.
Luke 1:7And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 13:1
At this chapter begins the account of the dividing of the land of Canaan among the tribes of Israel by lot, a narrative not so entertaining and instructive as that of the conquest of it, and yet it is thought fit to be inserted in the sacred history, to illustrate the performance of the promise made to the fathers, that this land should be given to the seed of Jacob, to them and not to any other. The preserving of this distribution would be of great use to the Jewish nation, who were obliged by the law to keep up… Read the whole commentary →