The Gibeonite Deception

9 Now when all the kings west of the Jordan heard about these things—the kings in the hill country,^(A) in the western foothills, and along the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea^(B) as far as Lebanon^(C) (the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites,^(D) Hivites^(E) and Jebusites)^(F)—

⁶ “‘Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.^(A) This will be your boundary on the west.^(B)

¹⁷ And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt^(A) into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’^(B)

¹⁰ This is how you will know that the living God^(A) is among you^(B) and that he will certainly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites,^(C) Hivites, Perizzites,^(D) Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites.^(E)

²³ My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites,^(A) and I will wipe them out.

¹¹ “‘Then you crossed the Jordan^(A) and came to Jericho.^(B) The citizens of Jericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites, Perizzites,^(C) Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites,^(D) but I gave them into your hands.^(E)

⁴ Remember how I have allotted^(A) as an inheritance^(B) for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain—the nations I conquered—between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea^(C) in the west.

⁷ (To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan,^(A) and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side^(B) of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them,^(C)

⁴ Now that the Lord your God has given them rest^(A) as he promised, return to your homes^(B) in the land that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan.^(C)