Joshua 13:5

13:5 the territory of Byblos ¹  and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath. ² 

Joshua 13:1

The Lord Speaks to Joshua

13:1 When Joshua was very old, ³  the Lord told him, “You are very old, and a great deal of land remains to be conquered.

Joshua 5:1

5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they ⁴  crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites. ⁵ 

Psalms 83:7

83:7 Gebal, ⁶  Ammon, and Amalek,

Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. ⁷ 

[13:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and the land of the Gebalites.”

[13:5]  ² tn Or “the entrance to Hamath.” Most modern translations take the phrase “Lebo Hamath” to be a proper name, but often provide a note with the alternative, where “Hamath” is the proper name and לְבוֹא (lÿvo’) is taken to mean “entrance to.”

[13:1]  ³ tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following clause.

[5:1]  ⁴ tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”

[5:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”

[83:7]  ⁶ sn Some identify Gebal with the Phoenician coastal city of Byblos (see Ezek 27:9, where the name is spelled differently), though others locate this site south of the Dead Sea (see BDB 148 s.v. גְּבַל; HALOT 174 s.v. גְּבַל).

[83:7]  ⁷ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.