Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and Yahweh said to him, You are old and well stricken in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
"The whole land has been subdued  (Joshua 11:23-12), but here we read that even in Joshua's old age there remained "very much land to be possessed."  This plainly comes through from an older source than  Joshua 12, and is very much nearer the true state of things.  The later writer, however, in order to bring the statement into harmony with what was written in  Joshua 12, proceeds to explain the phrase "very much land" by referring it to distant places in the West and in the North, some of which never came into the possession of Israel at all."[6]