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Joshua 16

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The Whosoever Study Bible
Whosoever will, may come.
the book of joshua
Joshua (with possible additions) · c. 1405–1385 BC
Chapter the Sixteenth
And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,
And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.
So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper;
And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.
And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
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Chuck Smith on Joshua 16

Verse by verse, the C2000 series. Permission granted by The Word For Today.
Verses 1-10 Chapter 16 In chapter sixteen he describes the areas that were given then to Manasseh, and to Ephraim, the sons, or the descendants of Joseph. Now part of the tribe of Manasseh settled on the east banks of the Jordan River, but the other part settled on the west banks of the Jordan from the area of Jericho, on up through Bethel, and the area basically just north from the area of Jerusalem, and going north from there north of Judah. So verse ten, chapter sixteen, They drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and they serve under tribute ( Joshua 16:10 ). So again the failure of totally conquering the land. As we get into the book of Judges, we'll see the cost of this disobedience of failing to totally take the land, but allowing some of the people to remain. As the scripture predicted they did become thorns in their sides, and pricks, and they became a real problem to them in time to come. We'll cover that as we move on into Judges. But we'll finish the book of Joshua next Sunday. Now in some of the reading that we skipped over tonight, the listing of all those names, you can't even find the ruins of all those cities anymore. So it's no sense of reading all the things, when you get to those listing of names, just jump over them, else your Bible reading will become tedious indeed. So just jump over whenever you start getting a list of a lot of names. Now I do suggest that you get a good Bible map of the division of the land to the twelve tribes. And a good map will do a lot more for you to understand the places where the twelve tribes lived than trying to read the borders of the cities that don't even exist anymore. So just get you a good Bible map and you can study it on a good Bible map, the portion out of the land. Now what they did is that they would draw out the area, and then they would have all the tribes' names in a little box or something, and they'd put, say, "Okay now this area on down from Jerusalem on south", and so forth, and say, "All right now who's gonna have this?" They'd draw the lot and "Oh Judah", "Okay that's Judah's". So they apportioned the land by lot, by the drawing of lots. They would circumscribe an area, then draw lots and it would go to that tribe whose was drawn for that particular area. So next week we move on to the finishing of the apportioning of the land to the various tribes, and to Joshua's final charge to the people, and his death. Shall we stand? May the Lord bring you into a special consciousness of His presence, of His love, of His interest in your life. May you walk in the consciousness of God's grace, and be led by His Spirit. May you come into a new relationship with God, a very personal relationship with God. In Jesus' name. "

Commentary on Joshua 16

Whosoever Will · the Seven Threads Commentary

Joshua 16:1

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 16:2

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 16:3

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 16:4

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 16:5

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 16:6

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 16:7

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 16:8

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 16:9

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 16:10

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36
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