Hey, this is a year in the Bible, it's Daily Grace. I'm Shelby, and I'm here with Scott.

Hey.

We're in the book of Joshua, and today we're in chapters 16 through 18. So yesterday, we started

a more tedious section of scripture. There's land allotments happening to the tribes of Israel.

And I know we even talked yesterday about how there's some important land allotments to certain tribes happening in chapter 16 and 17.

So we'll kind of like carry over that conversation into today.

What's going on in 16 through 18 yeah so i mentioned back

how in genesis 49 when jacob's blessing his sons judah and joseph were particularly prominent

and the book of joshua reflects that by first recording the land that judah would inherit which we saw

yesterday in chapter 15 uh and then by covering the land that joseph, which we saw yesterday in chapter 15,

and then by covering the land that Joseph would inherit, Joseph being the tribes of Ephraim and Manasse.

And that's what chapter 16 and 17 are all about. As a reminder, Manasseh had already inherited some land east of the Jordan River. Here we see that they inherited some to the west of it as

well. I think it's worth mentioning, too, that one way I think you see Ephraim's importance to Israel

in this book is Joshua himself. Joshua was from the tribe of Ephraim, the man who led the Israelites

into their inheritance. And I think another way you see Ephraim's importance man who led the Israelites into their inheritance. I think another way you see

Ephraim's importance is that it's the land of Ephraim where Shiloh is. Yeah, so Shiloh

comes up in Chapter 18. It seems to be significant, if I'm reading this correctly. Can you tell

us more about Shiloh and it its significance? Yeah, so it's important

because that's where the tabernacle gets set up. And it's going to stay there until the book of

1st Samuel. And it's here at Shiloh that the rest of the land starts to get portioned out

among the other tribes. So some tribes had already taken possessions of areas of the promised land.

You had Judah, Ephraim, Manasse,

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