You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over.

Joshua 13:1-33

When Joshua had grown old, the Lord said to him, “You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over. 

As for all the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have instructed you, and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.”

But to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance, since the food offerings presented to the Lord, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as he promised them.

This is the inheritance Moses had given when he was in the plains of Moab across the Jordan east of Jericho. But to the tribe of Levi, Moses had given no inheritance; the Lord, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he promised them.

Not all the land allocated had been completely subdued - and not every tribe realized its ideal by conquering all its allotted territory, In several places, as in the previous chapters, the writer comments on the situation in his own day.

The land still unconquered includes the Mediterranean coastlands and land in the north. Compare Judges King David eventually subdued the Philistines and the Syrians in the north. But Israel never controlled Phoenicia (Tyre and Sidon)

Why?

Joshua has grown old, even there are still very large areas of land to be taken over. So these missions have to leave to the inheritance of Israelite.

The work of the Lord, the mission of the Lord keeps from this generation to next generation to test all Chrisitan how to follow the word of the Lord.

God's word never fails, so let us turn our eyes on the Lord and have faith to work with the Lord.

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所有事，不是玩的沒有你不行。神要約書亞交棒給其他人。

分地包含來得未得之地的原因：

1)人有惰性， 容易以現狀為滿足。已經得到應許必須恐懼、顫競，做成得救的功夫。

2)眼目是否看見來得未得之地。容易被矇閉，忘記神的話。

3)神的話語使人甦醒，提醒人，不要裹足不前。

神沒有說的不要胡亂開口，神已經說的不用客氣，可以向神祈求。分土地也要照顧利未人，雖然他們沒有分地，但是耶和華就是他們的產業，是最大的福分。

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How?

Praise the Lord, for all what I can do is the grace of the Lord. I am nothing without the Lord.