Joshua 1 (KJV) - Bible Truth Library

From the wilderness.That is, their utmost limits should be from the Desert of Arabia Petræa on the south, to Lebanon on the north; and from the Euphrates on the east, to the Great Sea, or the Mediterranean, on the west.

The Israelites did not possess the full extent of this grant till the time of David.

Gen. 15:18‑21• ¹⁸In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
¹⁹The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
²⁰And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
²¹And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. (Gen. 15:18‑21)

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Ex. 23:31• ³¹And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. (Ex. 23:31)

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Num. 34:2‑18• ²Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)
³Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
⁴And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon:
⁵And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
⁶And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
⁷And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
⁸From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
⁹And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border.
¹⁰And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:
¹¹And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
¹²And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
¹³And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the Lord commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
¹⁴For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:
¹⁵The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
¹⁶And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
¹⁷These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
¹⁸And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance. (Num. 34:2‑18)

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Deut. 1:7• ⁷Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. (Deut. 1:7)

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Deut. 3:25• ²⁵I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. (Deut. 3:25)

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Deut. 11:24• ²⁴Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. (Deut. 11:24)

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1 Chron. 5:9• ⁹And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead. (1 Chron. 5:9)

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1 Chron. 18:3• ³And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates. (1 Chron. 18:3)

• They must go there, overcome the obstacles with the help and by the power of God, and take actual possession. Without that they could not possess it; and, in fact, this is what happened. They never took possession of all the land which God had given. Nevertheless, to faith the promise was sure. (“Joshua 1” by J.N. Darby)

• Jordan was the boundary of their abode, the Euphrates that of their possession. The heavenly things are ours; but the manifestation of the power of Christ over creation, and the deliverance of this creation, is granted to us. It will be delivered when Christ Himself shall exercise the power. (“Joshua 12-24” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the river Euphrates, the whole land of the Hittites, to the great sea, toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.