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Joshua 18
The setting up of the tabernacle at Shiloh, ver. 1. Joshua's
stirring up the seven remaining tribes to look after their lot, ver. 2-7. The division of the land into several lots assigned to those several tribes, ver. 8-10. The lot of Benjamin, ver. 11-28.
Verse 1. Set up the tabernacle - By God's appointment. It was removed
from Gilgal, partly for the honour and conveniency of Joshua, that
he being of the tribe of Ephraim, and seating himself there, might
have the opportunity of consulting with God as often as he
needed; and partly for the conveniency of all the tribes, that being
in the center of them, they might more easily resort to it from all
places. Here the tabernacle continued for above three hundred
years, even 'till Samuel's days, 1 Sam. i, 3. Shiloh was the name
given to the Messiah in dying Jacob's prophecy. So the pitching
the tabernacle in Shiloh intimated to the Jews, that in that Shiloh
whom Jacob spoke of, all the ordinances of this worldly sanctuary
should have their accomplishment, in a greater and more perfect
tabernacle.
Verse 3. How long are you slack - This slackness is supposed to arise
from an opinion of the impossibility of making any regular
distribution of the parts, 'till the whole were more exactly
surveyed, which accordingly is here done. Likewise, being weary
of war, and having sufficient plenty of all things, they were
unwilling to run into new hazards.
Verse 4. Three men - Three, not one, for more exact observation both of
the measure and quality of the several portions, and for greater
assurance of their care and faithfulness in giving in their account.
Of each tribe - One of each of these tribes, who were yet
unprovided for.
Verse 5. Seven parts - Which were of equal extent or worth: for no tribe
was so great, but one of these parts in its full extent would
abundantly suffice them; and there was no reason why the
portions should be greater or less according as the tribes at present
were more or fewer in number, because of the various changes
which happened therein successively; it being usual for one tribe
to be more numerous than another in one age, which was fewer in
the next. And if the several tribes had increased more, and not
diminished their numbers by their sins, they might have sent forth
colonies, and taken any part of the land, even as far as Euphrates,
all which the Lord of the whole earth had given them a right to,
which when they pleased they might take possession of. Judah
shall abide on the south - They shall not be disturbed in their
possession, but shall keep it, except some part of it shall be
adjudged to another tribe. Joseph on the north - In respect of
Judah, not of the whole land; for divers other tribes were more
northern than they.
Verse 6. Before the Lord - That is, before the ark or tabernacle, that God
may be witness and judge, and author of the division, that each
may be contented with his lot, and that your several possessions
may be secured to you as things sacred.
Verse 9. By cities - Or, according to the cities, to which the several
parties or territories belonged.
Verse 11. And the children of Joseph - Wherein we see the wisdom of
Divine Providence, this being the only place in which that
prophecy, Deut. xxxiii, 12, could have been accomplished.
Providence cast Benjamin next to Joseph on the one hand,
because Benjamin was own and only brother to Joseph, and next
to Judah on the other hand, that this tribe might hereafter unite
with Judah, in an adherence to the throne of David, and the temple
at Jerusalem.
Verse 14. Kirjath-jearim - The Israelites changed the name, to blot out
the remembrance of Baal.
Verse 16. The end of the mountain - The place where the mountain ends,
and the valley begins. Before the valley - That is, in the prospect
of that valley. In the valley on the north - Which extends unto this
other valley on the north-side of it. Of Jebusi - To that part where
the Jebusites lived, which was in and near Jerusalem.
Verse 21. Jericho - For tho' the city was destroyed, the territory
remained.
Chapter 18:
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