to the south, all the land of the Canaanites, from Mearah of the Sidonians to Aphek, as far as the border of the Amorites;
Parallel translations
- WEB on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
- KJV From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
- ESV in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,
- NKJV from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
- NASB to the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorite;
- NLT in the south also remains to be conquered. In the north, the following area has not yet been conquered: all the land of the Canaanites, including Mearah (which belongs to the Sidonians), stretching northward to Aphek on the border of the Amorites;
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Quick answer
Further unconquered land lay to the south and north: Canaanite territory, Sidonian Mearah, and as far as Aphek and the Amorite border.
Overview
The catalogue of remaining land continues northward toward Phoenician regions. These areas were never fully possessed, partly through Israel's later disobedience. The verse underlines that the fullness of the promise depended on continued faithfulness, a pattern fulfilled perfectly only in Christ, who secures the whole inheritance for His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Josh 19:30Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob. There were twenty-two cities, along with their villages.
- 1 Sam 4:1Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.
- Judg 1:34–36The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.
- Josh 11:3to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
- Josh 10:40So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
- Amos 2:10And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.
- Josh 12:18the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
- Josh 12:7–8And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance
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