"See,I have apportionedto you thesenationswhich remainas an inheritancefor your tribes,with allthe nationswhichI have cutoff,from the Jordaneven to the GreatSeatoward the settingof the sun.
Saying,"To you I will givethe landof CanaanAs the portionof your inheritance,"
He also droveout the nationsbeforethem And apportionedthem for an inheritanceby measurement,And made the tribesof Israeldwellin their tents.
"I will drivethem out beforeyou littleby little,untilyou becomefruitfuland takepossessionof the land.
"I have cutoffnations;Their cornertowersare in ruins.I have madetheir streetsdesolate,With noonepassingby; Their citiesare laidwaste,Withouta man,withoutan inhabitant.
"Whenthe LORDyour Godcutsoffbeforeyou the nationswhichyou are goingin to dispossess,and you dispossessthem and dwellin their land,
"Thisis the landthat remains:allthe regions[of] the Philistinesand all[those of] the Geshurites;
And Joshuacastlotsfor them in Shilohbeforethe LORD,and thereJoshuadividedthe landto the sonsof Israelaccording to their divisions.
I alsowill nolongerdriveout beforethem anyof the nationswhichJoshualeftwhen he died,
