Joshua 18:10

And Joshua cast lots After their return the Hebrew leader proceeded to a formal apportionment of the land by the sacred lot. This mode of assignment, it has been remarked, "places the conquest of Palestine, even in that remote and barbarous age, in a favourable contrast with the arbitrary caprice, by which the lands of England were granted away to the Norman chiefs." Stanley's Lectures, i. p. 265.

in Shiloh Shiloh was appropriate, we have already seen, from its central situation, for the site of the Tabernacle and this apportionment of the tribes. But it has been noticed that it was appropriate also from its name, "which recalled rest(Shiloh = rest), and the promised Rest-giver" (Genesis 49:10).