From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders 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;
- BSB to the south, all the land of the Canaanites, from Mearah of the Sidonians to Aphek, as far as the border 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
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- Josh 19:30Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
- 1 Sam 4:1And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
- Judg 1:34–36And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
- Josh 11:3And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
- Josh 10:40So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
- Amos 2:10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess 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 country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
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