Joshua 18:4

Provide for yourselves three men from each tribe that I may send them, and that they may arise and walk through the land and write a description of it according to their inheritance; then they shall return to me.

Numbers 1:4

With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father’s household.

Numbers 13:2

Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers’ tribes, every one a leader among them.”

Joshua 3:12

Now then, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.

Joshua 4:2

Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from each tribe,

Joshua 18:3

So Joshua said to the sons of Israel, “How long will you put off entering to take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?

Joshua 18:6

You shall describe the land in seven divisions, and bring the description here to me. I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.

Joshua 18:9

So the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Describe

Bible References

Three

Joshua 18:3
So Joshua said to the sons of Israel, “How long will you put off entering to take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?
Joshua 3:12
Now then, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
Joshua 4:2
Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from each tribe,
Numbers 1:4
With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father’s household.
Numbers 13:2
Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers’ tribes, every one a leader among them.”

Describe

Joshua 18:6
You shall describe the land in seven divisions, and bring the description here to me. I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.

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