Joshua 13:1
Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. The LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
World Messianic Bible
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In Context
2“This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
Cross References
Numbers 34:2“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),
Deuteronomy 31:3The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as the LORD has spoken.
Joshua 18:3Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?
Joshua 23:1After many days, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
Joshua 24:29After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old.
Luke 1:7But they had no child, because Elisheva was barren, and they both were well 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 →