CHAPTER 18 THE FURTHER SEVEN ALLOTMENTS - THE ALLOTMENT TO BENJAMIN. In this chapter we have described the gathering at Shiloh where the Tent of Meeting (the Tabernacle) was set up, for the allotting by lot of the allotments to the remaining seven tribes. Men were to be sent out to divide up the re... [ Continue Reading ]
‘ And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes which had not yet divided their inheritances.' At this stage Judah, Ephraim, Manasseh, Gad and Reuben had received their inheritances in principle, the first three by the casting of lots. How the process was carried through we do not kn... [ Continue Reading ]
‘ And Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long are you dallying from going in to possess the land, which YHWH the God of your fathers has given you?” ' Joshua now challenged the remainder of the tribes on the need to advance. Eleazar was ‘the priest' who acted with regard to the casting of... [ Continue Reading ]
“ Appoint for yourselves three men for each tribe, and I will send them and they will arise and walk through the land and describe it according to their inheritance, and they shall come to me, and they will divide it into seven portions. Judah shall abide in his border on the south, and the house of... [ Continue Reading ]
“ For the Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of YHWH is their inheritance, and Gad and Reuben and the half tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance Beyond Jordan Eastward, which Moses the Servant of Yahweh gave them.” The explanation is given as to why there were only se... [ Continue Reading ]
‘ And the men arose and went, and Joshua charged those who went to describe the land, saying, “Go and walk through the land and describe it in writing, and come again to me, and I will cast lots for you here before YHWH in Shiloh.” ' So Joshua gave his last instructions to the men in accordance wit... [ Continue Reading ]
‘ And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book, and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.' Note that the camp of Israel has now moved from Gilgal to Shiloh along with the Tabernacle. (Gilgal is never again mentioned as the place of enca... [ Continue Reading ]
‘ And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before YHWH, and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.' The lots were cast before YHWH and the land divided according to the divisions the surveyors had made. Again there was more to it than stated. No doubt t... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ALLOTMENTS TO THE TRIBES (JOSHUA 18:11 TO JOSHUA 19:51). We now have indicated how the lot divided the land among the seven remaining tribes. 1). THE LOT OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN (JOSHUA 18:11). Joshua 18:11 ‘ And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their f... [ Continue Reading ]