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A Phoenician territory still unconquered when Joshua grew old and the Lord named the land remaining to be possessed
PhoeniciaMearah appears once in Scripture in the Lord's farewell charge to the aged Joshua naming the land still remaining to be possessed: "Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed... All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, and all the Sidonians... and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek" (Joshua 13:1-4). Mearah is generally identified with a cavern district in the Phoenician hinterland north of Sidon — the Hebrew name literally means "cave," and the region preserved its prehistoric cave-shrine cult into the post-conquest era.
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