“Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.”
Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance the lands of all the nations that remain, from the Jordan to the Great Sea on the west — Joshua's legal terminology 'allotted...as an inheritance' (hinnāḥaltî lākem) reflects the completed allotment narratives (chs. 13-21). The phrase 'nations that remain' acknowledges incompleteness; some Canaanites persist. The boundary description ('from the Jordan to the Great Sea') marks Israel's territorial extent, though not yet fully conquered.
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