When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
according to the word of the Lord they gave him the city which he asked, even Tim´nath–se´rah in mount E´phra-im: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?