“The border of the descendants of Efrayim according to their families was as follows: the eastern border of their inheritance began at ‘Atrot-Adar and went to Upper Beit-Horon; then the border extended westward, with Mikhm’tat on the north; next the border turned eastward to Ta’anat-Shiloh and passed by it to the east of Yanochah; then […]

Today we begin Joshua Chapter 16. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click HERE. For the King James version, click HERE. “The border of the territory chosen by lot for the descendants of Yosef began from the Yarden at Yericho, at the spring of Yericho on the east, went up from Yericho through the hills and […]

“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 […]