Joshua 13 · Verse 2

Joshua 13:2

This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
Joshua 13:2, King James Version

Joshua 13:2 in other translations

BSBThis is the land that remains:
WEB“This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
ASVThis is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
YLT‘This is the land that is left; all the circuits of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
DARBYThis is the land that yet remaineth: all the districts of the Philistines and all the Geshurites,
BBEThis is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
WebsterThis is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

What does Joshua 13:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 13:2-7
2-6. This is the land that yet remaineth--that is, to be acquired. This section forms a parenthesis, in which the historian briefly notices the districts yet unsubdued; namely, first, the whole country of the Philistines--a narrow tract stretching about sixty miles along the Mediterranean coast, and that of the Geshurites to the south of it (1Sa 27:8). Both included that portion of the country "from Sihor, which is before Egypt," a small brook near El-Arish, which on the east was the southern boundary of Canaan, to Ekron, the most northerly of the five chief lordships or principalities of the Philistines.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 The borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri - The borders of the Philistines may mean the land which they possessed on the sea-coast, southwest of the land of Canaan. There were several places named Geshuri, but that spoken of here was probably the region on the south of Canaan, towards Arabia, or towards Egypt. - Calmet. Cellarius supposes it to have been a country in the vicinity of the Amalekites.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joshua 13:1-6

At this chapter begins the account of the dividing of the land of Canaan among the tribes of Israel by lot; a narrative showing the performance of the promise made to the fathers, that this land should be given to the seed of Jacob. We are not to pass over these chapters of hard names as useless. Where God has a mouth to speak, and a hand to write, we should find an ear to hear, and an eye to read; and may God give…

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Joshua 13:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

זֹ֥אתzotthisH2063
הָאָ֖רֶץha.'A.retz[is] the landH776
הַנִּשְׁאָ֑רֶתha.nish.'A.retwhich remainsH7604
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
גְּלִיל֥וֹתge.li.Lot[the] territories ofH1552
הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖יםha.pe.lish.Timthe PhilistinesH6430
וְכָל\־ve.kholand allH3605
הַגְּשׁוּרִֽי\׃ha.ge.shu.Rithe Geshurite[s]H1651

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Cross references for Joshua 13:2

  • Joshua 13:11

    And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;

  • Joel 3:4

    Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

  • Judges 3:1

    Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

  • 1 Samuel 27:8

    And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

  • Deuteronomy 11:23-24

    Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

  • Joshua 12:5

    And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

  • Exodus 23:29-31

    I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

  • 2 Samuel 15:8

    For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.

  • Genesis 26:1

    And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

  • Joshua 13:13

    Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.

  • 2 Samuel 13:37-38

    But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day. So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

  • 2 Samuel 3:3

    And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the land.
Ex 23:29-31; De 11:23,24; Jud 3:1
borders.
Ge 10:14; 26:1; Joe 3:4
Geshuri.
11,13; 12:5; 1Sa 27:8; 2Sa 3:3; 13:37,38; 15:8

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Context

  • Joshua 13:1

    Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

  • Joshua 13:2

    This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

  • Joshua 13:3

    From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:

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Joshua 13:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Esta es la tierra que queda: todos los términos de los Philisteos, y toda Gessuri;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
C’est ici le pays qui reste: tous les districts des Philistins et tous les Gueshuriens,
German
Elberfelder 1871
Dies ist das Land, das noch übrig ist: alle Bezirke der Philister und das ganze Gesuri;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
omnis videlicet Galilæa, Philisthiim, et universa Gessuri.