Giblites] Gebal was at the foot of Lebanon, on the coast.

7, 8. The LXX has a much more intelligible reading—'And now divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh, from Jordan to the great sea and toward the sunsetting shalt thou give it: the great sea shall be the border (Joshua 13:8). To the tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh, Reuben and Gad, gave Moses on the other side of Jordan, toward the sun-rising...'

8-33. The territory of the two tribes and a half, including territory previously taken from Moab by Sihon (Numbers 21:26): CP. Numbers 32:1; Numbers 32:33. Reuben had from the Arnbn on the S. to Heshbon (=Hesbân), a little north of the Dead Sea. Gad had the eastern side of the Jordan valley, from the N. boundary of Reuben to the Sea of Galilee (Sea of Chinnereth) and the western slopes of Mt. Gilead; Manasseh had the eastern half of Mt. Gilead, all the great plateau of Bashan, running up to the range of Hermon.

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