13:1 Now Joshua was old [and] a 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 b possessed.
(a) Being almost a hundred and ten years old.
(b) After the enemies are overcome.
13:6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto
c 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.
13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel d expelled not the
Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and
the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this
day.
(d) Because they had not destroyed all as God had
commanded they that remainder were snares and pricks
to hurt them, (Nu 33:35 Jos 23:13 Jud 2:3).
13:14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the
sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are]
e their inheritance, as he said unto them.
13:22f Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the
children of Israel slay with the sword among them that
were slain by them.
(f) So that both they who obeyed wicked counsel and the
wicked counsellor perished by the just judgment of
God.
13:27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth,
and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of
Heshbon, Jordan and [his] border, [even] unto the edge of
the sea of Chinnereth on the g other side Jordan
eastward.
(g) That is, in the land of Moab.
13:31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the
kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the h
children of Machir the son of Manasseh, [even] to the one
half of the children of Machir by their families.
