It then extended to the slope of Ekron to the north, went toward Shikkeron, crossed to Mount Baalah, extended to Jabneel, and ended at the sea.p>

Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt<n id="1" /> and the border at the Mediterranean Sea.<n id="2" />p>

It then extended on to the sea, with Micmethath on the north. It turned eastward to Taanath Shiloh and crossed it on the east to Janoah.

The southern side started on the edge of Kiriath Jearim and extended westward to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

Their border went up westward to Maralah and touched Dabbesheth and the valley near<n id="1" /> Jokneam.

It then turned toward Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre,<n id="1" /> turned to Hosah, and ended at the sea near Hebel, Aczib,

<p class="bodytext">When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the <sc>Lordsc> had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they<n id="1" /> crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites.<n id="2" />p>

For we heard how the <sc>Lordsc> dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan.<n id="1" />

For the <sc>Lordsc> your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the <sc>Lordsc> your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it.<n id="1" />

Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place<n id="1" /> west of Ai, between Bethel<n id="2" /> and Ai.<n id="3" /> Joshua spent that night with the army.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan<n id="1" /> &#8211; in the hill country, the lowlands,<n id="2" /> and all along the Mediterranean coast<n id="3" /> as far as<n id="4" /> Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) &#8211;

<p class="bodytext">These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Lebanon Valley to Mount Halak on up to Seir. Joshua assigned this territory to the Israelite tribes,<n id="1" />

It included the valley of Beth Haram,<n id="1" /> Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, and the rest of the realm of King Sihon of Heshbon, the area east of the Jordan to the end of the Sea of Kinnereth.<n id="2" />

It then went up the Valley of Ben Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites on the south (that is, Jerusalem),<n id="1" /> going up to the top of the hill opposite the Valley of Ben Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the Valley of the Rephaites to the north.

It then turned from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, crossed to the slope of Mount Jearim on the north (that is Kesalon), descended to Beth Shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.

The border then descended southward to the Valley of Kanah. Ephraim was assigned cities there among the cities of Manasseh,<n id="1" /> but the border of Manasseh was north of the valley and ended at the sea.

Their northern border started at the Jordan, went up to the slope of Jericho<n id="1" /> on the north, ascended westward to the hill country, and extended to the desert of Beth Aven.

It then crossed to the slope of Beth Hoglah to the north and ended at the northern tip of the Salt Sea<n id="1" /> at the mouth of the Jordan River.<n id="2" /> This was the southern border.

(Now to one half-tribe of Manasseh, Moses had assigned land in Bashan; and to the other half Joshua had assigned land on the west side of the Jordan with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home,<n id="1" /> he rewarded<n id="2" /> them,

See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations,<n id="1" /> from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea<n id="2" /> in the west, including all the nations I defeated.<n id="3" />