Joshua 18:4

Appoint three men from each tribe. I will send them to make a survey of the land showing the proposed areas for their inheritance. Then they are to come back to me.

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In The King James Version

Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.

In Context

3Joshua said to the Israelites, “How long will you delay to enter and occupy the land which the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you?

5They must divide it into seven parts, with Judah in the southern territory and Joseph in the northern.

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Cross References

Joshua 4:2“Take twelve men from the nation, a man from each tribe,

Joshua 18:6Mark out the land into seven divisions and bring me the plan. Then I will draw lots for you here before the Lord our God.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 18:3-11

The Tabernacle at Shiloh. ( b. c. 1444.) 1 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 the midst of the story of the dividing of the land comes in this account of the setting up of the tabernacle, which had hitherto continued in its old place in the centre of their camp; but now that three of the four squadrons that used to surround it in the wilderness were broken and diminished,… Read the whole commentary →

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