“As for the Y’vusi, who lived in Yerushalayim, the descendants of Y’hudah could not drive them out; so the Y’vusi live with the descendants of Y’hudah in Yerushalayim to this day.”-Joshua 15:6 As I mentioned yesterday, geography was the reason why certain villages clustered together at certain locations. One cluster of villages could be separated […]

As I mentioned earlier, we are NOT going to study the tedious looooooooooooong list of cities and villages listed in Joshua 15 and the chapters that follow immediately after. It’s not necessary as long as you understand the basis behind why cities and villages grouped together at certain locations. So what are some of these […]

Alrighty, so Joshua Chapter 15 finishes up by dividing the territory of Judah into 4 districts based on climate and how fertile the land was. The four districts are as follows: The NEGEV (the Southern Lands): The Negev could  best be described as a transition zone because it covered both the fertile land of the […]

“Kalev said, “To whoever overpowers Kiryat-Sefer and captures it I will give my daughter Akhsah as his wife.” Otni’el the son of K’naz, Kalev’s brother, captured it; so he gave him ‘Akhsah his daughter as his wife.  After becoming his wife, she persuaded him to ask her father to give them a field; when she […]

“To Kalev the son of Y’funeh he gave a portion with the descendants of Y’hudah, as Adonai had ordered Y’hoshua, namely, Kiryat-Arba (Arba was the father of the ‘Anak), also called Hevron.”-Joshua 15:13 From verse 13, we’re plunged right back into the history of Caleb. It’s made clear to us that the land he was […]