Joshua 18:8

Modern English Version

So the men got up and left. Joshua commanded those who were leaving to survey the land, saying, “Go and walk back and forth throughout the land. Write a description of it, then return to me. Here in Shiloh I will cast lots for you before the Lord.”

Cross References

Genesis 13:17

Arise, and walk throughout the land across its length and its width, for I will give it to you.”

Isaiah 34:17

He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has divided it to them by line. They shall possess it forever, from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

Romans 14:19

Therefore let us pursue the things which produce peace and the things that build up one another.

Joshua 13:7

So now, divide this land as an inheritance for the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

Joshua 15:1

The allotment for the tribe of Judah, by their clans, stretches southward to the border of Edom, to the Zin wilderness in the south.

Joshua 18:1

The whole congregation of the Israelites assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land was subdued before them.

Joshua 18:10

Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord. There Joshua apportioned the land for the Israelites according to their divisions.

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.

1 Samuel 14:41

Therefore Saul said to the Lord, the God of Israel, “Give a perfect lot.” And Saul and Jonathan were taken, but the people escaped.