Joshua 13:1

When Joshua was old, well advanced in years, the Lord said to him, “You are old, well advanced in years, and yet much land still remains to be occupied.

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Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

In Context

2This is the land still left to be occupied: all the Philistine districts and all the Geshurite territory

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Cross References

Joshua 18:3Joshua said to the Israelites, “How long will you delay to enter and occupy the land which the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you?

Joshua 23:1A long time afterwards, when the Lord had given Israel rest from all its surrounding enemies, and when Joshua was old, far advanced in years,

Joshua 24:29After this Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, at the age of a hundred and ten.

Luke 1:7But they had no child, Elizabeth being barren; and both of them were advanced in years.

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 →

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