Joshua 23:4
“Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun.”
What does Joshua 23:4 mean?
Joshua is reminding the Israelite tribes that God has already given them the land they need, even though some nations still live within those borders. He's drawing a map with his words, pointing from the Jordan River all the way to the Mediterranean Sea, marking out their inheritance. The phrase "cut off" refers to the victories God gave them during their earlier campaigns, and the remaining nations represent work still ahead, but the promise itself is already secured. This is meant to encourage them: the land is theirs by God's gift, so they can move forward with confidence even though the task of fully settling it isn't complete.