Jos 18:6-11 | TSK | STEP | that I may cast.

Joshua 18:6-11

that I may cast.

8,10; 14:2; Nu 26:54,55; 33:54; 34:13; Ps 105:11; Pr 16:33; 18:18

Ac 13:19

the Levites.

13:14,33; Nu 18:20,23; De 10:9; 18:1,2

and Gad.

13:8-31; Nu 32:29-41; De 3:12-17; 4:47,48

Go.

Ge 13:17

that I may here.

6,10; 7:16-18; 13:7; 14:1,2; 15:1; 1Sa 14:41; Ac 1:24-26; Ro 14:19

described.The surveyors seem to have formed some kind of map of the country, as well as a description of it in writing. The Egyptians, from the situation of their fields, as annually overflowed by the Nile, acquired great skill in mensuration and land surveying; and some of the Israelites had, no doubt, learned these from them, without a knowledge of which they could not properly have divided the land. This is probably the first act of surveying on record.

into seven.

Ac 13:19

cast lots.

6,8; Pr 18:18; Eze 47:22; 48:29; Mt 27:35; Ac 13:19

before the Lord.

Ps 16:5,6; 47:4; 61:5; Joh 17:2; Ac 26:18; Col 1:12

between the children.

15:1-8; 16:1-10; De 10:1-22; 13:12