Joshua 23:4

“ See, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations I have cut off, even unto the Great Sea westward (toward the going down of the sun).”

Joshua was quite clear on the fact that not all Canaan was subdued. His mind was still clear and sharp. Many had been cut off and driven out, but by no means all. But they had all been allotted to the tribes, and it was now up to the tribes to claim their inheritance, from Jordan to the Mediterranean coast.