Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 13:6

6 All the inhabitants of the hill-countrey from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel : only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance , as I have commanded thee.

Presently after thy Death, if the Israelites do not hinder it by their unbelief or wickedness.

Though they be now unconquered, yet divide them, partly as a pledg to assure them of my help in conquering them after thy Death; partly to lay an obligation upon the Israelites to proceed in Conquering-work, and to bear Witness against them in case they did not; and partly as a Wall of partition between them and the Canaanites, to prevent all Agreements, Contracts and Confederacies with them, to which God saw they began to encline.

Marginal references: Chap. 11. 8.