Numbers 34

Numbers 34:17

17. These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: &c.] Nothing could be more prudent, than this partition of the country by lot, and making Joshua and the high priest superintendents of it: since it was the only plan which could effectually prevent all murmurings and quarrellings among such an obstinate people as the Jews. However, as the lots were to bear a proportion to the size of each tribe and family, it is supposed from what followed, that every

tribe first drew its lot, for its own canton; and that, after that, there were proper persons appointed to measure out a quantity of land for each family, according to their size. But whether this distribution was made by this or any other method; whether the subdivisions between the families were conducted by lot or otherwise, it is certain that we do not read of any broils or jealousies, that it ever occasioned among them. Stackhouse.

Before CHRIST 1452. e Josh. 19. 31.