Week 67, Day 3: Surveying the rest
Today’s Reading: Joshua 18:1-28
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
Apparently I had a lapse of memory and forgot to make the post yesterday.
Chapter 18 gives us another indicator that Israel was not doing as it should in possessing the land. We have already seen several examples of where they did not drive out certain inhabitants and where they instead used some as their servants. Here we have recorded that Joshua speaks to Israel and gives them a reproof because only 5 tribes have taken possession of their land. This makes it sound like the other seven tribes are not anxious to move forward and leave the camp at Shiloh to go and possess their land. I take this as a negative because they are not expressing any sense of being anxious to take the land for themselves. Joshua’s question to them was “how long will you put off entering to take possession of the land?”
We are told of 3 men from each tribe surveying the land and which portion Benjamin gets. So the men map out the land and then Joshua casts lots for who gets what. Thus no disagreements should come up that someone got an unfair portion of land or were shown favortism. They surveyed the land together, divided it togetherr but then who got which portion was selected by the casting of the lots.
Question: What could be considered important about the cities or location of Benjamin’s portion?
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