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

It is not very important, but I never noticed this before.  The passage tells us that the Israelites had taken control of the land (except for a few areas described in yesterday’s passage), but that seven of the tribes had not yet received their portion.  What I had not noticed was that the tribes of Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh) controlled the northern portion from their central location in the north and the tribe of Judah controlled the southern portion from their central location in the south.  Further, a look at the final allotments of territory described in this passage gives us an insight into the politics of Israel as it played out through the Book of Judges and the kings of the unified kingdom (really through the division of the kingdom).

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