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 Ga´zathites, and the Ash´dothites, the Esh´kalonites, the Gittites, and the Ek´ronites; also the Avites:
4 from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Me-a´rah that is beside the Sido´nians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
5 and the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon toward the sunrising, from Ba´al–gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Mis´rephoth–ma´im, and all the Sido´nians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manas´seh,
8 with whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them;
9 from Aro´er, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Me´deba unto Dibon;