Joshua 14:2
They inherited according to their lots, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Joshua to the nine tribes and the half tribe, on the other side of Jordan.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
3But to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
Cross References
Numbers 26:55The land shall be divided to the names by lot, they shall inherit according to the tribes of their families.
Numbers 34:13And Moses charged the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, even as the Lord commanded us to give it to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 18:6And do ye divide the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, and I will give you a lot before the Lord our God.
Psalms 16:5Direct my steps in thy paths, 1 That my steps slip not. 1
Proverbs 18:18A silent man quells strifes, 1 And determines between great powers. 1
Matthew Henry on Joshua 14:2-6
The Distribution of Canaan. ( b. c. 1444.) 1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. 2 By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto… Read the whole commentary →