When Joshua had reached a venerable age, God said to him, “You’ve had a good, long life, but there is a lot of land still to be taken. This is the land that remains:all the districts of the Philistines and Geshurites;the land from the Shihor River east of Egypt to the border of Ekron up north, Canaanite country (there were five Philistine tyrants—in Gaza, in Ashdod, in Ashkelon, in Gath, in Ekron); also the Avvim from the south;all the Canaanite land from Arah (belonging to the Sidonians) to Aphek at the Amorite border;the country of the Gebalites;all Lebanon eastward from Baal Gad in the shadow of Mount Hermon to the Entrance of Hamath;all who live in the mountains, from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim;all the Sidonians.