Allotment of the Remaining Land

Joshua 18

1 Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at p Shiloh and set up q the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.

2 There remained among the people of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not yet been apportioned. 3 So Joshua said to the people of Israel, r "How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you? 4 Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me. 5 They shall divide it into seven portions. s Judah shall continue in his territory on the south, t and the house of Joseph shall continue in their territory on the north. 6 And you shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me. u And I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God. 7 v The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the Lord is their heritage. w And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them."

8 So the men arose and went, and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, "Go up and down in the land and write a description and return to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh." 9 So the men went and passed up and down in the land and wrote in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions. Then they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh, 10 and Joshua x cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord. And there Joshua apportioned the land to the people of Israel, y to each his portion.

  1. Cross References
    Joshua 19:51
    These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land.
    Joshua 21:2
    And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, "The Lord commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock.
    Joshua 22:9
    So the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, parting from the people of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had possessed themselves by command of the Lord through Moses.
    Joshua 22:12
    And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered at Shiloh to make war against them.
  2. Cross References
    Joshua 19:51
    These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land.
  3. Cross References
    Judges 18:9
    They said, "Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land.
  4. Cross References
    Joshua 15:1
    The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south.
  5. Cross References
    Joshua 16:1
    The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.
    Joshua 16:4
    The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
  6. Cross References
    Joshua 18:10
    And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord. And there Joshua apportioned the land to the people of Israel, to each his portion.
    Joshua 14:2
    Their inheritance was by lot, just as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes.
  7. Cross References
    Joshua 13:33
    But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, just as he said to them.
  8. Cross References
    Joshua 13:8
    With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them:
  9. Cross References
    Joshua 18:6
    And you shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.
  10. Cross References
    Joshua 11:23
    So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.
    Joshua 12:7
    And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments.
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