Joshua 18:1
The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
2Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.
Cross References
Numbers 32:22and the land is subdued before the LORD; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before the LORD.
Joshua 21:2They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “The LORD commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for our livestock.”
Joshua 22:19However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of the LORD, in which the LORD’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than the LORD our God’s altar.
Judges 21:12They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
1 Samuel 1:3This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the LORD, were there.
1 Samuel 4:3When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of the LORD’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us and save us out of 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 →