King James Version · Entering the land
Joshua 17
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There was also a lot for the tribe of ; for he was of ; to wit, for of , of : because he was a man of war, therefore he had and . There was also a lot for the rest of the children of by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of , and for the children of , and for the children of , and for the children of : these were the male children of the son of by their families. But , the son of , the son of , the son of , the son of , had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, , and Noah, , Milcah, and . And they came near before the priest, and before the son of , and before the princes, saying, commanded to give us an among our brethren. Therefore according to the of he gave them an among the brethren of their . And there fell ten portions to , beside the land of and , which were on the other side Jordan; 6Because the daughters of had an among his sons: and the rest of ’s sons had the land of . And the coast of was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before ; and the border went along on unto the inhabitants of En–tappuah. Now had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of belonged to the children of ; And the coast descended unto the river , southward of the river: these cities of are among the cities of : the coast of also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea: 10Southward it was ’s, and northward it was ’s, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in on the east. And had in and in Asher and her towns, and and her towns, and the inhabitants of and her towns, and the inhabitants of and her towns, and the inhabitants of and her towns, and the inhabitants of and her towns, even three countries. Yet the children of could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but would in that land. Yet it came to pass, when the were waxen strong, that they put to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out. And the children of spake unto , saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one to , seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as hath me hitherto? And answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the and of the giants, if mount be too narrow for thee. And the children of said, The hill is not enough for us: and all that in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of and her towns, and they who are of the valley of . 17And spake unto the , even to and to , saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great : thou shalt not have one lot only: But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out , though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
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.