Joshua 18:1

And all the children of Israel assembled together in Silo, and there they set up the tabernacle of the testimony, and the land was subdued before them.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.

In Context

2But there remained seven tribes of the children of Israel, which as yet had not received their possessions.

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Cross References

Numbers 32:22And all the land be brought under him, then shall you be blameless before the Lord and before Israel, and you shall obtain the countries that you desire, before the Lord.

Joshua 21:2And they spoke to them in Silo in the land of Chanaan, and said: The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, that cities should be given us to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed our cattle.

Joshua 22:19But if you think the land of your possession to be unclean, pass over to the land wherein is the tabernacle of the Lord, and dwell among us: only depart not from the Lord, and from our society, by building an altar beside the altar of the Lord our God.

Judges 21:12And there were found of Jabes Galaad four hundred virgins, that had not known the bed of a man, and they brought them to the camp Silo, into the land of Chanaan.

1 Samuel 1:3And this man went up out of his city upon the appointed days, to adore and to offer sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Silo. And the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were there priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 4:3And the people returned to the camp: and the ancients of Israel said: Why hath the Lord defeated us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Silo, and let it come in the midst of us, that it may save us from the hand of our enemies.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 18:1

In this chapter we have, I. The setting up of the tabernacle at Shiloh, ver. 1 . II. The stirring up of the seven tribes that were yet unsettled to look after their lot, and the putting of them in a method for it, by Joshua, ver. 2-7 . III. The distributing of the land into seven lots, by certain men employed for that purpose, ver. 8, 9 . IV. The determining of these seven portions to the seven tribes yet unprovided for by lot, ver. 10 . V. The particular lot of the tribe of Benjamin, the borders of it, ver. 11-20… Read the whole commentary →

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