“So the men got up and went. Y’hoshua gave them this commission as they left to describe the land: ‘Go; walk through the land; and describe it; then come back to me, and I will cast lots for you here before Adonai in Shiloh.’  The men went and passed through the land, surveying it by cities, […]

Yesterday we talked about how the Sacred Tent at Shiloh was neglected to the point where it didn’t even have a roof and the floor was made up of stones. Later, according to the historical records, around 1000 B.C., King David took possession of the Ark of the Covenant and just stored it in a […]

Over the last couple of days, we’ve established a couple of important facts. First, we established that the location of Israel’s central government was moved from Gilgal to Shiloh. Gilgal was territory that was still no-man’s land and Shiloh was located in newly assigned Ephraimite territory. Shiloh would remain the capital and Joshua would rule […]

Alrighty folks, since the content of the next few chapters is just a looooooooong list of villages, towns and cities and descriptions outlining the borders of the territories for each of the tribes of Israel, we’re gonna be ramping up the pace significantly here. All of these geographical descriptions were done via words because map-making […]

“There still remained among the people of Israel seven tribes that had not yet received their inheritance.  Y’hoshua said to the people of Isra’el, ‘How long will you delay going in to take possession of the land which Adonai the God of your ancestors has given you?’”-Joshua 18:2-3 Verse 2 lets us know that all […]