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Joshua 13:6 KJV
Joshua · chapter 13 · verse 6
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.Joshua 13:6 · King James Version
Joshua 13:6 in context
4From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
5And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
6All 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.
7Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
8With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- MisrephothmaimMisrᵉphôwth mayimMisrephoth-Majim, a place in PalestineH4956 →
- inhabitantsyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- inheritancenachălâhproperly, something inheritedH5159 →
- SidoniansTsîydônîya Tsidonian or inhabitant of TsidonH6722 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- countryhara mountain or range of hillsH2022 →
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Here, I. God puts Joshua in mind of his old age, v. 1. 1. It is said that Joshua was old and stricken in years, and he and Caleb were at this time the only old men among the thousands of Israel, none except them of all those who were numbered at Mount Sinai being now alive.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6