Joshua 13:1
Now Yehoshua was zaken, advanced in yamim; Hashem said unto him, Thou art old, advanced in yamim; HaAretz there remaineth yet harebbeh me'od to be possessed.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2This is HaAretz that yet remaineth; all the regions of the Pelishtim, and all Geshuri,
Cross References
Numbers 34:2Command the Bnei Yisroel, and say unto them, When ye come into Eretz Kena'an (this is HaAretz that shall fall unto you for a nachalah, even Eretz Kena'an with the borders thereof),
Deuteronomy 31:3Hashem Eloheicha, He will go over before thee, and He will make shmad these Goyim from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them; and Yehoshua (see Neh 8:17 for Aramaic form, Yeshua), he shall go over before thee, as Hashem hath said.
Joshua 18:3And Yehoshua said unto the Bnei Yisroel, How long are ye mitrapim (slack ones, cowardly) going to take to go in and possess HaAretz, which Hashem Elohei Avoteichem hath given you?
Joshua 23:1And it came to pass yamim rabbim after Hashem had given manoach unto Yisroel from all their surrounding enemies, that Yehoshua was zaken and advanced in days.
Joshua 24:29And it came to pass after these things, that Yehoshua ben Nun Eved Hashem, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
Luke 1:7But they had no ben, because Elisheva was barren, and they were both advanced in their yamim.
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 →