Yehoshua 13 - Summary
(Text) - The chapter begins a number of years after the initial battles surrounding Bnei Yisrael’s entrance into Eretz Yisrael. God tells Yehoshua that he is old and that there still remains much land to be conquered. God then tells Yehoshua of the remaining nations and lands that are not yet under Jewish rule.
Having gone through the remaining lands, Yehoshua is commanded to divide the lands among the nine and a half tribes of Bnei Yisrael. He is commanded to divide among nine full tribes and half of Menashe because Reuven, Gad and half of Menashe have already received their portions East of the Jordan River, as promised to them during Moshe’s time.
The rest of the chapter goes through the borders of the inheritances of these two and a half tribes, located on the other side of Jordan. (The remaining tribe - Levi - does not receive an inheritance of Land because “God is their inheritance” as is stated in this perek and in the Torah).
Posted in Chapter 13, Summaries, Yehoshua - Joshua by Yaakov Ellis on February 19, 2007 |
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