Allotment of the Remaining Land

Joshua 18

1 Now the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together a at Shiloh, and b set up the tabernacle of meeting there. And the land was subdued before them.

2 But there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes which had not yet received their inheritance. 3 Then Joshua said to the children of Israel: c "How long will you neglect to go and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers has given you? 4 "Pick out from among you three men for each tribe, and I will send them; they shall rise and go through the land, survey it according to their inheritance, and come back to me. 5 "And they shall divide it into seven parts. d Judah shall remain in their territory on the south, and the e house of Joseph shall remain in their territory on the north. 6 "You shall therefore 1 survey the land in seven parts and bring the survey here to me, f that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God. 7 g "But the Levites have no part among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance. h And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them."

8 Then the men arose to go away; and Joshua charged those who went to 2 survey the land, saying, "Go, walk i through the land, survey it, and come back to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh." 9 So the men went, passed through the land, and 3 wrote the survey in a book in seven parts by cities; and they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh. 10 Then Joshua cast j lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD, and there k Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their 4 divisions.

  1. Cross References
    Joshua 19:51
    These were the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel divided as an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. So they made an end of dividing the country.
    Joshua 21:2
    And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "The LORD commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their common-lands for our livestock.
    Joshua 22:9
    So the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they had obtained according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
    Jeremiah 7:12
    But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I set My name at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
  2. Cross References
    Judges 18:31
    So they set up for themselves Micah's carved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
    1 Samuel 1:3
    This man went up from his city yearly to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. Also the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.
    1 Samuel 1:24
    Now when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD in Shiloh. And the child was young.
    1 Samuel 4:3
    And when the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh to us, that when it comes among us it may save us from the hand of our enemies.
    1 Samuel 4:4
    So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who dwells between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
  3. Cross References
    Judges 18:9
    So they said, "Arise, let us go up against them. For we have seen the land, and indeed it is very good. Would you do nothing? Do not hesitate to go, and enter to possess the land.
  4. Cross References
    Joshua 15:1
    So this was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families: The border of Edom at the Wilderness of Zin southward was the extreme southern boundary.
  5. Cross References
    Joshua 16:1
    The lot fell to the children of Joseph from the Jordan, by Jericho, to the waters of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho through the mountains to Bethel.
    Joshua 17:18
    "but the mountain country shall be yours. Although it is wooded, you shall cut it down, and its farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots and are strong."
  6. Cross References
    Joshua 14:2
    Their inheritance was by lot, as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
    Joshua 18:10
    Then Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD, and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
  7. Cross References
    Numbers 18:7
    "Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar and behind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood to you as a gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death."
    Numbers 18:20
    Then the LORD said to Aaron: "You shall have no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
    Joshua 13:33
    But to the tribe of Levi Moses had given no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as He had said to them.
  8. Cross References
    Joshua 13:8
    With the other half-tribe the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses had given them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD had given them:
  9. Cross References
    Genesis 13:17
    "Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you."
  10. Cross References
    Acts 13:19
    And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land to them by allotment.
  11. Cross References
    Numbers 34:16 - 29
    And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying.
    Joshua 19:51
    These were the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel divided as an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. So they made an end of dividing the country.
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