Joshua 14:1-5. Distribution of the Land West of the Jordan

1. And these are the countries In this section, from Joshua 14:1-5, we have an introduction to the division of the country west of the Jordan among the nine and a half remaining tribes.

Eleazar the priest He was the third son of Aaron, and his successor in the highpriesthood (Numbers 20:25; Deuteronomy 10:6). See below, ch. Joshua 24:33. Both here and in Numbers 34:17 he is mentioned before Joshua, "for the division by lot was presided over by the high priest as the representative of the government of the Lord in Israel." Keil.

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