(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Joshua 13:1–6, “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. This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri, From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites: From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath. All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.”
When Joshua was old, the Lord told him that the Land still had to be possessed. Even though the armies had met in battle and Israel had been successful in their battles, except for the first battle against Ai, the people still had to go from town to town, house to house to take possession of the entire territory. This job had to be done by the individual tribes who were going to live in each place. All the Israeli army had been put in the field to conquer the Canaanites but each tribe was responsible for their own territory. From the south to the north and the east to the west all the tribes on the western side of the Jordan River had to complete their own task on their own behalf.
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