Joshua 18:4

Modern English Version

Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them out; and they will rise and go throughout the land, and describe it according to their inheritance, and they will come back to me.

Cross References

Micah 2:5

Therefore you will not have anyone to apportion the land by lot in the assembly of the Lord.

Numbers 1:4

With you there will be a man of every tribe, each one the head of his father’s house.

Numbers 13:2

“Send men that they may explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. Of every tribe of their fathers you will send a man, each one a chief among them.”

Joshua 18:3

So Joshua said to the Israelites, “How long will you delay going in to possess the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?

Joshua 18:5

They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah will stay in their territory in the south, and the house of Joseph will stay in their territory in the north.

Joshua 18:6

So describe the land in seven portions and return to me. Then I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.

Joshua 18:9

The men went and passed through the land. In a book they wrote a description of it by cities in seven portions, and they came back to Joshua at the Shiloh settlement.

Joshua 3:12

Now select twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man per tribe.

Joshua 4:2

“Take twelve men from among the people, one man per tribe.