Joshua 18:8

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Summary

And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.

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Genesis 13:17

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Bible References

Go

Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."

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You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.

Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh."

These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of ancestral houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,

The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, toward the Negev in the far south.

Therefore Saul said, ?LORD, God of Israel, why have you not answered your servant this day? If this sin is mine or in Jonathan my son, LORD, God of Israel, give Urim. But if this sin is in your people Israel, give Thummim.? And Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people were cleared.

They prayed, and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.