Joshua 18:9
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| Overview - Joshua 18 | |
| 1 | The tabernacle is set up at Shiloh. |
| 2 | The remainder of the land is described, and divided into seven parts. |
| 10 | Joshua distributes it by lot. |
| 11 | The lot and border of Benjamin. |
| 21 | Their cities. |
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Joshua 18:9 (King James Version)
And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
- described
- The surveyors seem to have formed some kind of map of the country, as well as a description of it in writing. The Egyptians, from the situation of their fields, as annually overflowed by the Nile, acquired great skill in mensuration and land surveying; and some of the Israelites had, no doubt, learned these from them, without a knowledge of which they could not properly have divided the land. This is probably the first act of surveying on record.
- into seven
- Acts 13:19