World English Bible · Entering the land
Joshua 21
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Then the heads of fathers' houses of the came near to the priest, and to the son of , and to the heads of fathers' houses of the tribes of the . They spoke to them at in the land of , saying, " commanded through to give us cities to in, with their pasture lands for our livestock." The gave to the out of their , according to the of , these cities with their pasture lands. The lot came out for the families of the . The children of the priest, who were of the , had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of the , and out of the tribe of . The rest of the children of had ten cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of , out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of . The children of had thirteen cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of , out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of , and out of the half-tribe of in . The children of according to their families had twelve cities out of the tribe of , out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of . The gave these cities with their pasture lands by lot to the , as commanded by . They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of , these cities which are mentioned by name: and they were for the children of , of the families of the , who were of the children of ; for theirs was the first lot. They gave them , named after of (also called ), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it. But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to the son of for his possession. To the children of the priest they gave with its pasture lands, the for the man slayer, with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands, Ain with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands, and with its pasture lands: nine cities out of those two tribes. Out of the tribe of , with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands, and with its pasture lands: four cities. 19All the cities of the children of , the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands. The families of the children of , the , even the rest of the children of , had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of . They gave them with its pasture lands in the hill country of , the for the man slayer, and with its pasture lands, Kibzaim with its pasture lands, and with its pasture lands: four cities. Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands: four cities. Out of the half-tribe of , with its pasture lands, and with its pasture lands: two cities. 26All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of were ten with their pasture lands. They gave to the children of , of the families of the , out of the half-tribe of Golan in with its pasture lands, the for the man slayer, and Be Eshterah with its pasture lands: two cities. Out of the tribe of , Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands, En Gannim with its pasture lands: four cities. Out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands, Helkath with its pasture lands, and with its pasture lands: four cities. Out of the tribe of , in with its pasture lands, the for the man slayer, Hammothdor with its pasture lands, and Kartan with its pasture lands: three cities. 33All the cities of the according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands. To the families of the children of , the rest of the , out of the tribe of , with its pasture lands, Kartah with its pasture lands, 35Dimnah with its pasture lands, and Nahalal with its pasture lands: four cities. Out of the tribe of , with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands, 37Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands: four cities. Out of the tribe of Gad, in with its pasture lands, the for the man slayer, and with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands, with its pasture lands: four cities in all. 40All these were the cities of the children of according to their families, even the rest of the families of the . Their lot was twelve cities. All the cities of the among the possessions of the were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands. 42Each of these cities included their pasture lands around them. It was this way with all these cities. So gave to Israel all the land which he to give to their fathers. They it, and lived in it. gave them rest all around, according to all that he to their fathers. Not a man of all their stood before them. all their into their hand. Nothing failed of any good thing which had spoken to the . All came to pass.
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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.