Joshua 13:6
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6 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I will myself drive them out from before the Israelites; only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.(A)
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Joshua 11:8
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8 And the Lord handed them over to Israel, who attacked them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim and eastward as far as the valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down until they had left no one remaining.(A)
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Judges 2:21-23
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21 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.”(A) 22 In order to test Israel, whether or not they would take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their ancestors did,(B) 23 the Lord had left those nations, not driving them out at once, and had not handed them over to Joshua.
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Joshua 23:13
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13 know assuredly that the Lord your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.(A)
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Joshua 23:4
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4 I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
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Joshua 14:1-2
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The Distribution of Territory West of the Jordan
14 These are the inheritances that the Israelites received in the land of Canaan, which the priest Eleazar, and Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of the Israelites distributed to them.(A) 2 Their inheritance was by lot, as the Lord had commanded Moses for the nine and one-half tribes.(B)
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Numbers 33:54
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54 You shall apportion the land by lot according to your clans; to a large one you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small one you shall give a small inheritance; the inheritance shall belong to the person on whom the lot falls; according to your ancestral tribes you shall apportion it.(A)
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Exodus 23:30-31
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30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. 31 I will set your borders from the Red Sea[a] to the sea of the Philistines and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will hand over to you the inhabitants of the land, and you shall drive them out before you.(A)
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- 23.31 Or Sea of Reeds
Genesis 15:18-21
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18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates,(A) 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
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