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

Today, I am reading and commenting on Joshua 18-20.

    After the tribes of Reuben, Gad, Judah, Ephraim, and Manasseh had taken control of the land designated to them (at least to some degree), there were still seven tribes which had not taken any land. Joshua asked them to send out scouts into the remaining land so that he could divide it up among them. When they returned, it was discovered that there was some land within that given to the tribe of Judah which had not been claimed. That land was given to the tribe of Simeon. Which means that the tribe of Simeon was within what later became the Kingdom of Judah. This is yet another example of what I said yesterday about how reading these passages about how the land was divided up can provide us insight into things which happened later.