World English Bible · Entering the land
Joshua 17
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This was the lot for the tribe of , for he was of . As for of , of , because he was a man of war, therefore he had and . So this was for the rest of the children of according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of Helek, for the children of , for the children of , for the children of , and for the children of . These were the male children of the son of according to their families. But , the son of , the son of , the son of , the son of , had no sons, but daughters. These are the names of his daughters: , Noah, , Milcah, and . They came to the priest, and to the son of , and to the princes, saying, " commanded to give us an among our brothers." Therefore according to the of he gave them an among the brothers of their . Ten parts fell to , in addition to the land of and , which is beyond ; 6because the daughters of had an among his sons. The land of belonged to the rest of the sons of . The border of was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before . The border went along to , to the inhabitants of En Tappuah. The land of Tappuah belonged to ; but Tappuah on the border of belonged to the children of . The border went down to the brook of , southward of the brook. These cities belonged to among the cities of . The border of was on the north side of the brook, and ended at the sea. 10Southward it was , and northward it was , and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to on the east. had three heights in , in Asher and its towns, and and its towns, and the inhabitants of and its towns, and the inhabitants of and its towns, and the inhabitants of and its towns, and the inhabitants of and its towns. Yet the children of couldn't drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but would in that land. When the had grown strong, they put to forced labor, and didn't utterly drive them out. The children of spoke to , saying, "Why have you given me one lot and one part for an , since we are a numerous people, because has us so far?" said to them, "If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the and of the , since the hill country of is too narrow for you." The children of said, "The hill country is not enough for us. All who in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in and its towns, and those who are in the valley of ." 17 spoke to the , that is, to and to , saying, "You are a numerous people, and have great . You shall not have one lot only; but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it's farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out , though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong."
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The world at this moment · Entering the land, 1250 BC to 1200 BC ›
Israel crossing into Canaan and contending with fortified city-states, each with its own king, in a land Egypt had recently dominated and was now losing its grip on.
- The collapse
- The whole eastern Mediterranean is coming apart. Within about fifty years the Hittite empire falls, its capital burns, the Mycenaean palaces are destroyed, Ugarit is wiped out mid-correspondence, and Egypt is fighting for its life against seaborne invaders. Nobody fully knows why. Drought, earthquake, migration, and the failure of interlocking trade are all in the explanation.
- Egypt
- Still strong enough to record a victory over a people called Israel on a stone monument around 1207 BC, the earliest mention of the name outside the Bible. But Egyptian control of Canaan is slipping, and within a generation it is gone.
- Canaan
- Not a country but dozens of walled towns, each with its own king, its own god, and its own quarrel with the next valley. This is why the book of Joshua reads as a list of kings rather than a war with a nation.
- Further afield
- Iron is beginning to replace bronze across the region, partly because the tin trade that made bronze possible has broken down. The Olmec are building San Lorenzo. The Zhou are about to overthrow the Shang in China.