lot included all that part of the valley which respects the
sun-setting, and were bounded by Azotus and Dora; as also they had all
Jamnia and Gath, from Ekron to that mountain where the tribe of Judah
begins.

23. After this manner did Joshua divide the six nations that bear the
name of the sons of Canaan, with their land, to be possessed by the
nine tribes and a half; for Moses had prevented him, and had already
distributed the land of the Amorites, which itself was so called also
from one of the sons of Canaan, to the two tribes and a half, as we have
shown already. But the parts about Sidon, as also those that belonged to
the Arkites, and the Amathites, and the Aradians, were not yet regularly
disposed of.

24. But now was Joshua hindered by his age from executing what he
intended to do [as did those that succeeded him in the government, take
little care of what was for the advantage of the public]; so he gave
it in charge to every tribe to leave no remainder of the race of the
Canaanites in the land that had been divided to them by lot; that Moses
had assured them beforehand, and they might rest fully satisfied about
it, that their own security and their observation of their own laws
depended wholly upon it. Moreover, he enjoined them to give thirty-eight
cities to the Levites, for they had already received ten in the country
of the Amorites; and three of these he assigned to those that fled from
the man-slayers, who were to inhabit there; for he was very solicitous
that nothing should be neglected which Moses had ordained. These cities
were, of the tribe of Judah, Hebron; of that of Ephraim, Shechem; and
of that of Naphthali, Cadesh, which is a place of the Upper Galilee. He
also distributed among them the rest of the prey not yet distributed,
which was very great; whereby they had an affluence of great riches,
both all in general, and every one in particular; and this of gold and
of vestments, and of other furniture, besides a multitude of cattle,
whose number could not be told.

25. After this was over, he gathered the army together to a
congregation, and spake thus to those tribes that had their settlement
in the land of the Amorites beyond Jordan,--for fifty thousand of them
had armed themselves, and had gone to the war along with them:--"Since
that God, who is the Father and Lord of the Hebrew nation, has now
given us this land for a possession, and promised to preserve us in the
enjoyment of it as our own