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

Yesterday I mentioned that the account of Caleb claiming his inheritance in the land probably took place during the events described in Chapters 10 and 11.  The additional information concerning Caleb claiming his inheritance makes me think it took place during the events described in Chapter 10.  Following up on that, I would think that the description of the territory allotted to Ephraim and Manasseh would have then happened during the events described in Chapter 11.   We also learn from this passage that the two tribes of Joseph failed to completely drive the Canaanites out of the land of which they took possession.  I am tempted to think that the writer is making a contrast between the tribes of Joseph failing to drive out all of the Canaanites from their territory and the tribe of Judah doing so.  However, they did mention that the tribe of Judah failed to drive the Jebusites out of Jerusalem, so perhaps that is not the point being made here.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.