1. When Joshua had grown old, the Lord said to him, “You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over.
2. “This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and Geshurites,
3. from the Shihor River on the east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north, all of it counted as Canaanite though held by the five Philistine rulers in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron; the territory of the Avvites