These are they whom the Lord commanded
Not only named and appointed them, but laid his commands upon them, and obliged them: to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel;
even this order was made before the land was conquered by them, so sure and certain was it unto them; and accordingly they did divide it, and that in Shiloh, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, as in the presence of God, doing it in the most impartial and solemn manner; see ( Joshua 19:51 ) .