Joshua drew lots for them in Shiloh before the <sc>Lordsc> and divided the land among the Israelites according to their allotted portions.p>

They assigned them Kiriath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding grazing areas.

They assigned them Shechem (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter) in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer,

or associate with these nations that remain near<n id="1" /> you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods!<n id="2" /> You must not worship<n id="3" /> or bow down to them!

&#8220;Moses my servant is dead. Get ready!<n id="1" /> Cross the Jordan River!<n id="2" /> Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them.<n id="3" />

Joshua told them, &#8220;Go in front of the ark of the <sc>Lordsc> your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes.

tell them how the water of the Jordan stopped flowing<n id="1" /> before the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc>. When it crossed the Jordan, the water of the Jordan stopped flowing.<n id="2" /> These stones will be a lasting memorial for the Israelites.&#8221;p>

The <sc>Lordsc> handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon,<n id="1" /> Misrephoth Maim,<n id="2" /> and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people<n id="1" /> and allowed no one who breathed to live.

for the <sc>Lordsc> determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.<n id="1" />p>

They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.&#8221;<n id="1" /> So Joshua<n id="2" /> assigned them land among their uncles, as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded.<n id="3" />

But the Levites will not have an allotted portion among you, for their inheritance is to serve the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" /> Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their allotted land<n id="2" /> east of the Jordan which Moses the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s servant assigned them.&#8221;p>

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.

The <sc>Lordsc> made them secure,<n id="1" /> in fulfillment of all he had solemnly promised their ancestors.<n id="2" /> None of their enemies could resist them.<n id="3" />

Now the <sc>Lordsc> your God has made your fellow Israelites secure,<n id="1" /> just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes<n id="2" /> in your own land<n id="3" /> which Moses the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan.

If you violate the covenantal laws of the <sc>Lordsc> your God which he commanded you to keep,<n id="1" /> and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods,<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> will be very angry with you and you will disappear<n id="3" /> quickly from the good land which he gave to you.&#8221;p>

until the <sc>Lordsc> gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the <sc>Lordsc>, died off.<n id="1" /> For the <sc>Lordsc> had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them,<n id="2" /> a land rich in<n id="3" /> milk and honey.