a18:6
b18:7
d13:15-33
e18:9
f18:4
g18–19

‏ Joshua 18:6-10

18:6  a Joshua publicly cast sacred lots to eliminate envy or suspicion (see also study note on 7:16-18).
18:7  b The Levites: See ch 21  c.

• Gad ... Manasseh: See 13:15-33  d.
18:9  e The Canaanites of the hill country now feared Israel and allowed twenty-one men (18:4  f) to walk through these territories and return unharmed.

• The written record was probably a scroll, which might have provided the original source for the descriptions of the tribal allotments in chs 18–19  g.
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