I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading. I had been using One Year Bible Online, but it was time for a change.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Joshua 15-17.

    The passage describes the territory which Joshua gave to each of the tribes, laying out the boundaries for each tribe. All of these descriptions have one common element. We are told that the tribe could not, or, at least, did not, drive out all of the people living in the land. A rather telling part of the passage is what the people of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh said to Joshua when they asked him to allot them more land because there were so many of them. Joshua told them that if they needed more land they should clear out some of the people living in the lowlands in the area allotted to them. Their response was that those people were too strong for them. They failed to trust God’s promise to clear the land for them.