Caleb said, “To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.”

The border of Manasseh went from Asher to Micmethath which is near Shechem. It then went south toward those who live in Tappuah.

It went northward, extending to En Shemesh and Geliloth opposite the Pass of Adummim, and descended to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

as well as all the towns around these cities as far as Baalath Beer (Ramah of the Negev). This was the land assigned to the tribe of Simeon by its clans.

Their border went up westward to Maralah and touched Dabbesheth and the valley near Jokneam.

“Have the Israelites select the cities of refuge that I told you about through Moses.

So the Israelites assigned to the Levites by lot these cities and their grazing areas, as the Lord had instructed Moses.

They assigned from the tribes of Judah and Simeon the cities listed below.

So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, and they conquered it and lived in it.

Not one of the Lord’s faithful promises to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; every one was realized.

The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord.

A long time passed after the Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies, and Joshua was very old.

You saw everything the Lord your God did to all these nations on your behalf, for the Lord your God fights for you.

The Lord your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, so you can occupy their land as the Lord your God promised you.

One of you makes a thousand run away, for the Lord your God fights for you as he promised you he would.

I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt down when I intervened in their land. Then I brought you out.

If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well.”

Joshua said, “Now put aside the foreign gods that are among you and submit to the Lord God of Israel.”

Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the Lord’s shrine.

Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him in Gibeah in the hill country of Ephraim, where his son Phinehas had been assigned land.