Therefore I am content with ¹  weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties ²  for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

They served only for matters of food and drink ¹  and various washings; they are external regulations ²  imposed until the new order came. ³ 

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) ¹  For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

In the fourth generation ¹  your descendants ²  will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.” ³ 

This is the law of the one in whom there is a diseased infection, ¹  who does not have sufficient means for his purification.” ² 

There the border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and then its direction is to the sea. ¹ 

“‘And this will be your northern border: From the Great Sea you will draw a line to Mount Hor;

“‘For your eastern border you will draw a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

to the south; ¹  all the Canaanite territory, ²  from Arah ³  in the region of Sidon ⁴  to Aphek, as far as Amorite territory;

and all the cities of King Sihon of the Amorites who ruled in Heshbon, and ended at the Ammonite border.

Their territory started at Aroer ¹  (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and included the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plain of Medeba,

The border of the tribe of Reuben was the Jordan. The land allotted to the tribe of Reuben by its clans included these cities and their towns. ¹ 

Their territory included Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half of Ammonite territory ¹  as far as Aroer near ²  Rabbah.

The western border was the Mediterranean Sea. ¹  These were the borders of the tribe of Judah and its clans. ² 

The third lot belonged to the tribe of Zebulun ¹  by its clans. The border of their territory ²  extended to Sarid.

Their border went up westward to Maralah and touched Dabbesheth and the valley near ¹  Jokneam.

From Sarid it turned eastward ¹  to the territory of Kisloth Tabor, extended to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.

Their border touched Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. They had sixteen cities and their towns.

Their border started at Heleph and the oak of Zaanannim, went to Adami Nekeb, Jabneel and on to Lakkum, ¹  and ended at the Jordan River. ² 

He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from the watchtower to the city fortress. ¹