1Joshua had grown old and advanced in years. The LORD said to him, "You are old and advanced in years, yet much of the land remains to be possessed."2This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all the Geshurites.3From Shihor, which lies before Egypt, to the border of Ekron on the north, this territory is regarded as Canaanite: the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, together with the Avites.4From the south, all the land of the Canaanites extends to Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphek and the border of the Amorites.5The land of the Gebalites and all Lebanon toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-Bo and Hamath.6All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, that is, all the Sidonians: I myself will drive them out before the Israelites; only allot it to Israel as an inheritance, just as I commanded you.7Now therefore divide this land as an inheritance among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.