Verse Lens · Context pointer
Joshua 13:11 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 11. 11And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
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Role in This Section
Joshua 13:11 contributes this concrete line to the movement: “And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto…”.
Read It With
- Joshua 13:8–14
Read Joshua 13:11 with 13:8–14. Joshua 13:11 advances “Eastern Allotments and Levi's Different Inheritance” with the textual step “And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto…”. The complete unit establishes this movement: The narrative restates the two-and-a-half tribes' eastern territory, acknowledges unconquered Geshur and Maacah living among Israel, and distinguishes Levi's sacrificial inheritance from territorial allotment.
Why It Needs Context
Joshua 13:11 advances “Eastern Allotments and Levi's Different Inheritance” with the textual step “And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto…”. Its meaning depends on the complete allocation, its actors, limits, co-resident peoples, and unresolved land in Joshua 13:8-14; one item is not a modern deed or independent doctrine.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Joshua 13:8-14 — Eastern Allotments and Levi's Different InheritanceSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Joshua 13:8-14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Joshua
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clauses, names, repeated roots, boundary formulas, covenant terms, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Josh.xml, 13:8–14
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