Joshua 18:3-10
18:4 a The three selected representatives from each tribe came from the seven tribes that had not yet received their allotments.• a written report: Israel was not an entirely oral society. If an event or record was important enough to be remembered over time, leaders ordered that it be written down.
18:5 b The remaining land was divided into seven sections, one for each tribe not yet assigned its territory.
18:6 c Joshua publicly cast sacred lots to eliminate envy or suspicion (see also study note on 7:16-18).
18:7 d The Levites: See ch 21 e.
• Gad ... Manasseh: See 13:15-33 f.
18:9 g The Canaanites of the hill country now feared Israel and allowed twenty-one men (18:4 h) 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 i.
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